TY - BOOK AU - Nair,Janaki TI - Mysore modern: rethinking the region under princely rule SN - 9788125045076 AV - DS485.M9 N345 2011 U1 - 954/.87 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Karnataka (India) KW - Politics and government KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - India KW - British occupation, 1765-1947 N1 - 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 ER -