{"product_id":"mysore-modern-rethinking-the-region-under-princely-rule-paperback-softback-9780816673841","title":"Mysore Modern; Rethinking the Region Under Princely Rule (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816673841","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMysore Modern\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRethinking the Region Under Princely Rule\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJanaki Nair (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816673841\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 October 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.464 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMysore Modern \u003c\/i\u003epresents a wide-ranging, forcefully argued, and impressively researched series of essays on the colonial and immediate post-colonial history of India’s ‘model’ princely state, Mysore. It is a significant and valuable contribution to our understanding of the role princely states played in the history of modern India.\" -William Glover, University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMysore Modern \u003c\/i\u003ereconceptualizes modernity in India using the history of the Princely State of Mysore. In this forcefully argued work, Janaki Nair critiques earlier notions of the native states of India as spaces that were either defined entirely by the dominant narratives of colonial\/national modernity or were relatively untouched by them. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrounded in political history, and deriving insights from a wide range of visual, social, and legal texts and issues, \u003ci\u003eMysore Modern\u003c\/i\u003e reperiodizes the modern by connecting these apparently discrepant registers to build up a case for a specifically regional, “monarchical modern” moment in Indian history. Nair examines mural and portraiture traditions, as well as forms of memorialization and nationalization of art and architectural practices. The volume also considers bureaucratic efforts centered on the use of law and development as instruments of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Nair demonstrates, the resolution of struggles about the significance of the past in the present, the control of women’s sexuality and labor, and the role of the bureaucracy in Mysore reveal the imperatives of taking the region as the inaugural site for writing a history of Indian modernity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Reconceptualizing the Modern, the Region, and Princely Rule \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Tipu Sultan’s War Colors and the Battle for Perspective\u003cbr\u003e2. An Illusion of Permanence: Visualizing Legitimacy in Mysore \u003cbr\u003e3. Srirangapatna: Capital City to Topography of Conquest\u003cbr\u003e4. The Museumized Cityscape of Mysore \u003cbr\u003e5. K. Venkatappa and the Fashioning of a Mysore Modern in Art\u003cbr\u003e6. The Illicit in the Modern: Banning the Devadasi\u003cbr\u003e7. The Licit in the Modern: Protecting the Child Wife\u003cbr\u003e8. Giving the State a Nation: Revisiting Karnataka’s Reunification \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52742527549720,"sku":"9780816673841","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mysore-modern-rethinking-the-region-under-princely-rule-paperback-softback-9780816673841","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}