Locating pleasure in Indian history : prescribed and proscribed desires in visual and literary cultures /
Locating pleasure in Indian history : prescribed and proscribed desires in visual and literary cultures /
edited by, Seema Bawa.
- India : Bloomsbury India, 2021.
- xvi, 292 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 23 cm
Contributed articles.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Includes verses in Urdu; Urdu in Latin script.
9789390513727 9789390513802 9390513804
Pleasure in literature.
Pleasure
Pleasure in art.--Philosophy.
India--Civilization.
720.954 / BAW
Contributed articles.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Includes verses in Urdu; Urdu in Latin script.
9789390513727 9789390513802 9390513804
Pleasure in literature.
Pleasure
Pleasure in art.--Philosophy.
India--Civilization.
720.954 / BAW