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Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

	Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, And Modernity In South India by Davesh Soneji
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Unfinished Gestures 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. Following a hundred years of vociferous social reform, including a 1947 law that criminalized their lifestyles, the women in devadasi communities contend with severe social stigma and economic and cultural disenfranchisement. Adroitly combining ethnographic fieldwork with historical research, Davesh Soneji provides a comprehensive portrait of these marginalized women and unsettles received ideas about relations among them, the aesthetic roots of their performances, and the political efficacy of social reform in their communities.

ISBN - 9788178243542

Pages : 328

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Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, And Modernity In South India

by Davesh Soneji