Angma Dey Jhala

Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India (eBook, ePUB)

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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: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317316565
• Artikelnr.: 65033478

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;