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Mysore modern : rethinking the region under princely rule / Janaki Nair.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.Description: x, 357 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9788125045076
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954/.87 22
LOC classification:
  • DS485.M9 N345 2011
Contents:
Introduction: reconceptualizing the modern, the region, and princely rule -- Tipu Sultan's war colors and the battle for perspective -- An illusion of permanence: visualizing legitimacy in Mysore -- Srirangapatna: capital city to topography of conquest -- The museumized cityscape of Mysore -- K. Venkatappa and the fashioning of a Mysore modern in art -- The illicit in the modern: banning the devadasi -- The licit in the modern: protecting the child wife -- Giving the state a nation: revisiting Karnataka's reunification.
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Includes bibliographical references (p.327-344) and index.

Introduction: reconceptualizing the modern, the region, and princely rule -- Tipu Sultan's war colors and the battle for perspective -- An illusion of permanence: visualizing legitimacy in Mysore -- Srirangapatna: capital city to topography of conquest -- The museumized cityscape of Mysore -- K. Venkatappa and the fashioning of a Mysore modern in art -- The illicit in the modern: banning the devadasi -- The licit in the modern: protecting the child wife -- Giving the state a nation: revisiting Karnataka's reunification.

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