devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India /
Davesh Soneji
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
c2012
xiii, 313 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
South Asia across the disciplines
Includes bibliographical references and index
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