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Anjali Arondekar's Abundance asks what would happen if we shift the structuring narrative of the history of sexuality from that of archival loss and a paucity of evidence to one of abundance-"we have all the evidence we need," as one of the author's archivists remarks. Arondekar employs this approach in an historical account of a group of former Goan Devadasi, an "Other Backward Castes" community. Arondekar starts with this sense of abundance and then raises a set of connected historiographical issues to show what histories might tell if we constructed them differently. Her focus on a subaltern group that moves back and forth between Portuguese and English domination in South Asia, opens to larger questions about histories of sexualities as parts of area, colonial, and decolonial histories

Queer theory --- Sex --- Sexual minorities --- Decolonization --- Historiography --- Social aspects --- Devadāsīs --- History

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Unfinished Gestures presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred years of vociferous social reform, including a 1947 law that criminalized their lifestyles, the women in devadasis communities contend with severe social stigma and economic and cultural disenfranchisement. Adroitly combining ethnographic fieldwork with historical research, Davesh Soneji provides a comprehensive

Dance --- Devadāsīs --- Devadāsīs --- Prostitution --- Social change --- Social aspects --- Social conditions. --- Deva-dāsī --- Deva-dāsīs --- Devadāsī --- Joginis --- Mathammas --- Uruttira kaṇikaiyar --- Courtesans --- Dancers --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Street prostitution --- Sex work --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- Dances --- Dancing --- Amusements --- Performing arts --- Balls (Parties) --- Eurythmics --- courtesan, india, sex work, prostitution, sexuality, education, escort, demi monde, class, devadasis, stigma, criminalization, modernity, colonialism, reform, laws, ethnography, women, gender, marginalization, performance, aesthetics, tanjore, dance, tradition, anthropology, folklore, nautch, salon, madras, citizenship, respectability, masculinity, marriage, femininity, subjectivity, viralimalai, andhra pradesh, selfhood, muthulakshmi reddy, nonfiction, history, memory, religion. --- Devadasis