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Nair Janaki

Mysore modern : Rethinking the region under princely rule - Bangalore Orient Black Swan 2012 - 357p ix

Contents ;
Introduction: reconceptualizing the modern, the region, and princely rule;
Tipu Sultan's war colors and the battle for perspective;
An illusion of permanence: visualizing legitimacy in Mysore;
Srirangapatna: capital city to topography of conquest;
The museumized cityscape of Mysore;
K. Venkatappa and the fashioning of a Mysore modern in art;
The illicit in the modern: banning the devadasi;
The licit in the modern: protecting the child wife;
Giving the state a nation: revisiting Karnataka's reunification.;

ISBN: 9780816673834

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. British Occupation Of India - 1765 - 19472. Politics & Government - Karnataka - India3. Social Conditions

Dewey Class. No.: 954.870000 / NAI-1