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Locating pleasure in Indian history : prescribed and proscribed desires in visual and literary cultures / edited by, Seema Bawa.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: , Publication details: India : Bloomsbury India, 2021.Description: xvi, 292 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9789390513727
  • 9789390513802
  • 9390513804
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Electronic version:: Locating pleasure in Indian history.DDC classification:
  • 720.954 23 BAW
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available as an e-book.
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.
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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.

Includes verses in Urdu; Urdu in Latin script.

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