Locating pleasure in Indian history : prescribed and proscribed desires in visual and literary cultures /
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| Imprint: | New Delhi : Bloomsbury India, [2021] |
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| Description: | xvi, 292 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13412559 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements: Looking for Hur in History
- Introduction: Pleasures-Proscribed and Prescribed
- 1. Seeking Pleasure: Representations of Pleasure and Domesticity in Textual Traditions /Jaya S. Tyagi
- 2. Idyllic, Intimate, Beautiful Pleasures in Visual Culture at Mathura / Seema Bawa
- 3. Satire and Desire in Caturbhani / Ashish Abrol and Janica Paul
- 4. Courting Pleasure in Ravana's Lanka : The Aesthetics of Power and Desire in Early Medieval Deccan / Parul Pandya Dhar
- 5. Pleasant and Unpleasant Moments: The Life and Time of a Jain Merchant in Early Modern North India / Shalin Jain
- 6. 'Aashiq ko tow Allah na Dikhlaai Bhudhapa': Nazir Akbarabadi and the Celebrations of the Little Pleasures of Life in Urdu Poetry / Raziuddin Aquil
- 7. Painting Pleasure: The Genealogy and Dichotomies of Gender-based Identities / Preeti Sharma
- 8. Celebrating Adversities in the 17th and early 18th Century North India: The Case of Mir Ja'far Zatalli / Saifuddin Ahmad
- 9. Pleasures of Fashion and Sorrows of Production: The Handloom Industry in United Provinces, India, 1860s-1940s / Santosh Kumar Rai
- 10. Devotion and Pleasure: Vantages of Rebellion / Kota Neelima
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Index.