Music, Modernity, and Publicness in India 9780190121129, 0190121122, 9780190990206, 0190990201

Religion and Modernity in India 9780199467785

Modernity, which emphasizes the relegation of religion firmly to an individual's private life, is a challenging ide

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Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain 9781400831081

Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the

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Music and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Essays

This book encourages a debate over musical modernity; a debate considering the question whether an examination of the hi

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Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Class, and Consumption in India 0415424151

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Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India 9780804771092

Employers and servants in Kolkata reveal through their own stories how their evolving culture of servitude has produced,

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Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Class, and Consumption in India 9781000084160, 1000084167

Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the

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Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India 9780226768113

Unfinished Gestures presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally calleddevada

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Music and musical thought in early India 9780226730332, 9780226730325, 9780226730349

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Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India 0226504018

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Music and Musical Thought in Early India 9780226730349

Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this

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