Angma Dey Jhala

Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9781851960644
• ISBN-10: 1851960643
• Artikelnr.: 43246345

Autorenporträt

Angma Dey Jhala

Inhaltsangabe

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;