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BL
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625394
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Soneji, Devesh
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| Title & Author
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Unfinished gestures : : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India /\ Davesh Soneji
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, c2012
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| Series Statement
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South Asia across the disciplines
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xiii, 313 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780226768090 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226768090 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780226768106 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0226768104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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On historical, social, and aesthetic borderlands -- Producing dance in colonial Tanjore -- Whatever happened to the South Indian nautch?: toward a cultural history of salon dance in Madras -- Subterfuges of "respectable" citizenship: marriage and masculinity in the discourse of devadāsā reform -- Historical traces and unfinished subjectivity: remembering devadāsā dance at Viralimalai -- Performing untenable pasts: aesthetics and selfhood in coastal Andhra Pradesh -- Coda: gesturing to devadāsā pasts in today's Chennai
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Devadāsīs-- India, South
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Devadāsīs-- India, South-- Social conditions
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Dance-- Social aspects-- India, South
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Prostitution-- India, South
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Social change-- India, South
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| Dewey Classification
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306.6/94538082
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BL1237.58.D48S66 2012
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