TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bawa,Seema
AU  - 
TI  - Locating pleasure in Indian history: prescribed and proscribed desires in visual and literary cultures 
SN  - 9789390513727
U1  - 720.954 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - India
PB  - Bloomsbury India
KW  - Pleasure in literature
KW  - Pleasure
KW  - Pleasure in art
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - India
KW  - Civilization
N1  - 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; Also available as an e-book
ER  -