Mysore modern
Subtitle: rethinking the region under princely rule
By: Janaki Nair
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780816673834; 9780816673841
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reconceptualizing the modern, the region, and princely rule; title: Tipu Sultan's war colors and the battle for perspective; title: An illusion of permanence: visualizing legitimacy in Mysore; title: Srirangapatna: capital city to topography of conquest; title: The museumized cityscape of Mysore; title: K. Venkatappa and the fashioning of a Mysore modern in art; title: The illicit in the modern: banning the devadasi; title: The licit in the modern: protecting the child wife; title: Giving the state a nation: revisiting Karnataka's reunification.