Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India

AvAngma Dey Jhala

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

Del i serien Empires in Perspective

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Beskrivning

Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana – the female quarters of the Indic home or palace – this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-05-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Empires in Perspective
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781851960644

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'this book is a welcome and lively analysis of how women associated with the princely states have shaped, experienced, and projected to broader audiences in India and abroad the material culture of the princely states in colonial and postcolonial eras.' American Historical Review 'Jhala gives us a complex picture of the lives, material conditions, and representations of court women, fascinating in itself and invaluable to anyone plotting a novel or film to be set in the so-called native states.' Victorian Studies

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction: Cosmopolitan Collectors; Chapter 1a The Dholpur Jewellery Dispute, c. 1913: State Jewels, Stridhana and Zenana Patrons; Chapter 2 Trans-Regional Chefs, Kitchens and Cookbooks: Food in the Colonial and Postcolonial Zenana; Chapter 3 The Tawa’if and the Maharani: The Influence of Royal Aesthetics on Indian Cinema, Tourism and Popular Culture; Chapter 4 The Pardah Princess: Orientalist Portraits of the Zenana in Merchant Ivory’s Films; Chapter 5 Epilogue;