Mysore modern :
Nair, Janaki.
Mysore modern : rethinking the region under princely rule / Janaki Nair. - Minneapolis ; New Delhi : University of Minnesota Press ; Orient BlackSwan, 2011. - x, 357 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
9788125045076 9780816673834 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816673841 (pb : alk. paper)
2011017082
DS485.M9 / N345 2011
954.87
Mysore modern : rethinking the region under princely rule / Janaki Nair. - Minneapolis ; New Delhi : University of Minnesota Press ; Orient BlackSwan, 2011. - x, 357 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
9788125045076 9780816673834 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816673841 (pb : alk. paper)
2011017082
DS485.M9 / N345 2011
954.87