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.

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2011017082

DS485.M9 / N345 2011

954.87