Royal patronage, power and aesthetics in princely india

• Autore: Jhala Angma Dey
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Brookfield, Vermont, : Pickering & Chatto, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 305.489621095409034
• Soggetto topico: Royal houses - India - History - 20th century; Royal houses - India - History - 19th century; Princesses - India - Social life and customs - 20th century; Princesses - India - Social life and customs - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: India Court and courtiers History 20th century; India Court and courtiers History 19th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : cosmopolitan collectors -- The Dholpur jewellery dispute, c. 1913 : state jewels, Stridhana and zenana patrons -- Trans-regional chefs, kitchens and cookbooks : food in the colonial and postcolonial zenana -- The tawa'if and the Maharani : the influence of royal aesthetics on Indian cinema, tourism and popular culture -- The Pardah princess : Orientalist portraits of the zenana in Merchant Ivory's Films.
• Sommario/riassunto: Investigating the aesthetics of the <i>zenana</i> - 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. The women of these groups inhabited multiple worlds, equally at home in their often remote semi-autonomous princely states as in the metropolitan cities of British India and Europe or at 'coming out' parties in London. <br> During British colonial rule, <i>zenana</i> women were avid patrons of European jewellers, architects and chefs, juxtaposing traditional Indian styles with incoming Western trends. Drawing on a wide variety of sources such as government records, cookbooks, design manuals and memoirs, Jhala illustrates how material culture became representative of authority, sexuality, tradition and the idea of the 'indigenous' during the high noon of the Raj. In doing so, Jhala provides a portrait of a hitherto under-studied hybrid, cosmopolitan perspective, constructed from a uniquely female world, which has relevance to this day.
• Titolo autorizzato: Royal patronage, power and aesthetics in princely india
• ISBN: 1-315-65360-5; 1-317-31657-6; 1-283-14032-2; 9786613140326; 1-85196-074-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827745903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Empires in perspective.