{"id":38,"date":"2017-06-11T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T20:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=38"},"modified":"2021-10-22T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:05:34","slug":"38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Soneji, Devash. \u201cSiva\u2019s Courtesans: Religion, Rhetoric, and Self-Representation in Early Twentieth-Century Writing by Devadasis.\u201d International Journal of Hindu Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 2010, \u00a0pp. 31-70."},"content":{"rendered":"

In this article, Soneji summarizes a Tamil text entitled Uruttirakanikaiyar Katacarattirattu <\/em>or Siva\u2019s Courtesans<\/em>, written by a devadasi named Ancukam in 1911. Soneji says in the introduction, \u201cI position \u00a0[Siva\u2019s Courtesans] <\/em>in larger historical, literary, and political contexts. Moving away from characterizations of modern devadasis as \u2018temple women,\u2019 I hope to bring to the foreground an approach to devadasi social history that takes seriously their attempts to realize inclusion within the public sphere\u2014specifically within the spaces of the nation\u2014in the twentieth century.\u201d Soneji contextualizes Siva\u2019s Courtesans <\/em>within the devadasi reform period and the Indian nationalist movement, compares Siva\u2019s Courtesans with other 19th<\/sup> and 20th<\/sup>-century writings about devadasis, and discusses protest letters written by devadasis during this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this article, Soneji summarizes a Tamil text entitled Uruttirakanikaiyar Katacarattirattu or Siva\u2019s Courtesans, written by a devadasi named Ancukam in 1911. Soneji says in the introduction, \u201cI position \u00a0[Siva\u2019s Courtesans] in larger historical, literary, and political contexts. Moving away from characterizations of modern devadasis as \u2018temple women,\u2019 I hope to bring to the foreground Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[34,23,27,26],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secondary-sources-about-novels","category-secondary-sources-about-poetry","tag-devadasi","tag-history","tag-indian-nationalist-movement","tag-secondary-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t