Download or read book Unfinished Gestures written by Davesh Soneji and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Download or read book Devadasis of India written by Veenus Jain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient India has been a land of wisdom, riches and mysteries. Its fabled saints, philosophers, ascetics, its multiplicity of Gods & religions, complex rituals and even snake charmers and magicians never ceased to fascinate the world. Socio-religious tradition of Devadasis or the 'Brides of God' as they were known in India, is one such tradition, shrouded in mystery that attracts attention. It compels a curious mind to take a closer look to learn more and understand its realities. These women are generally referred to by the term devadasi which literally means 'female servant of the deity'. This work bears on many topics such as origin, belief, development, ceremonies, organization, functions, activities, paramours, sexuality, historical survey, statistical analysis, preventive measures and the pathetic stories of devadasis. Because it was conceived as a study of women, culture and religion, it must be borne in mind that all these concerns are dealt with as they arise out of a close attention to the practices of the devadasis.

Download or read book Nityasumangali written by Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author has first investigated the concept of the devadasi as found in the cultural history of South India, especialy in Tamil Nadu. Hereafter the function and form of the devadasi tradition are examined within the Temple Ritual of Tamil Nadu. This is not the study of the fact of the devadasi tradition, but of its meaning and the mode of production of that meaning.

Download or read book Muvalur Ramamirthammal s Web of Deceit written by Muvalar Ramamirthammal and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Given to the Goddess written by Lucinda Ramberg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research on an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to a goddess. Called devadasis, or jogatis, those dedicated become female and male women who conduct the rites of the goddess outside the walls of her main temple and transact in sex outside the bounds of conjugal matrimony. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues, and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations—between and among humans and deities—that exceed such categories.

Download or read book Devadasis in South India written by S. Jeevanandam and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Title 'Devdasis in South India: A Journey from sacred to a Profane Spaces written by S. Jeevanandam, Rekha Pande' was published in the year 2017. The ISBN number 9789351282105 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 322 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Women Studies, ABOUT THE BOOK: - This book traces the gradual transition of the devadasi system from the early medieval to

Download or read book Servants of the Goddess written by Catherine Rubin Kermorgant and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Servants of the Goddess weaves together the heartbreaking, yet paradoxically life-affirming stories of five devadasis—women, in the clutches of an ancient fertility cult, forced to serve the gods. Catherine Rubin Kermorgant sets out attempting to make a documentary film about the lives of present-day devadasis. Through her, we meet and get to know the devadasi women of Kalyana, a remote village in Karnataka. As they grow to trust Kermorgant and welcome her as an honorary sister, we hear their stories in their own words: stories of oppression, discrimination, violence and, most importantly, resilience. Kermorgant becomes a part of these stories and finds herself unwittingly enmeshed in a world of gender and caste bias which extends far beyond Kalyana—all the way to Paris, where the documentary is to be edited and produced. Servants of the Goddess is a testament to women’s strength and spirit, and a remarkably astute analysis of gender and caste relations in today’s rural India.

Download or read book The Devadasi and the Saint written by V. Sriram and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of a Carnatic musician and folk theater actress from Karnataka.

Download or read book Devadasi Cult written by Jogan Shankar and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on the devadasis, female dancers and singers, traditionally attached to temples; with particular reference to Karnataka.

Download or read book Devadasi System in India written by Shashi Panjrath and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wives of the God King written by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and published by Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the tension between the purity and impurity of the "devadasis"--a handful of female devotees of the Hindu temple and cult of Jagannatha at Puri--this book examines ideas about kingship, power, sexual purity, the role and status of women, and other central concerns of Hindu religious and cultural life.

Download or read book Trafficking in Women and Children in India written by P. M. Nair and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Presents The Research Findings Of Action Research On Trafficking In Women And Children In India (Artwac) That Involved The United Nations Development Fund For Women, The National Human Rights Commission And The Institute Of Social Sciences. Through A Human Rights Perspective, The First Section Of This Book Analyses The Data Generated By Artwac And Gives Detailed Recommendations For Better Judicial Interventions, Law Enforcement And Community Participation In Anti-Trafficking Strategies. The Second Section Contains A Rich Collection Of Case Studies, Giving An On-Ground Picture Of How Exploiters Have Little Or No Respect For The Rights Of Trafficking Victims.

Download or read book The Last Devadasi written by Barbara L. Baer and published by Open Books Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate and forbidden love clashes with tradition and caste in a changing India. Kamala Kumari is more than a Gemini Studio starlet: she's a classical dancer trained in the age-old line of Devadasis, a caste set in place a thousand years ago when girls were first dedicated in south Indian temples to serve the gods and men. From the promise of art and devotion, the sacred dancers fell into the hands of priests who both exalted and betrayed them. Beautiful, brilliant and proud, Kamala struggles to escape the old ways, entangling her Indian assistant, Dutch lover, and his young American wife. With its turbulent passions amid social upheavals, The Last Devadasi takes readers on a sensual feast in the 1970s palm-shaded trading city of Madras.

Download or read book Devad s written by Kali Prasad Goswami and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the beginning of classical dance, land, people and religion, with special reference to devadasi dance of Assam; also includes 22 songs for the dance.

Download or read book Night Birds written by K. Lakshmi Raghuramaiah and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Devadasi system in India a changing scenario written by Sanjeev Kumar B. Nirmalkar and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From Sacred Servant to Profane Prostitute written by Kay Kirkpatrick Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Centuries, The Devadasis Of India Were Regarded As Sacred Servants Who Devoutly Served Hindu Religious Images By Dancing Of Singing In The Temple . This Study Traces The Changes In The Social , Religious And Legal Status Of Devadasis With Particular Attention To Those Changes Government Policy Towards The Davadasis That Exemplify The Trends Towards Modernization And Secularization In India From The Adevent Of Direct British Rule In 1857 To Indian Independence In 1947 .