Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India - South Asia Across the Disciplines - Davesh Soneji - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226768090 - January 15, 2012
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Davesh Soneji
Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India - South Asia Across the Disciplines

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Presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title charts the historical fissures that lie beneath cultural modernity in South India.

312 pages, 48 halftones, 6 line drawings

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Released January 15, 2012
ISBN13 9780226768090
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 312
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   567 g

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