{"id":58,"date":"2017-06-19T21:28:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T02:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=58"},"modified":"2018-04-09T11:26:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:26:22","slug":"58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Wallace, Jo-Ann. “Lotus Buds: Amy Wilson Carmichael and the Nautch-Girls of South India.”\u00a0Victorian Review,\u00a0vol. 24, no. 2, 1998, pp. 175-93"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wallace examines the early 20th-<\/sup> century missionary and writer Amy Wilson Carmichael, focusing on her 1909 book Lotus Buds<\/em>, an account of Carmichael\u2019s \u201crescue work\u201d in South India. Wallace describes her article as \u201can attempt to understand the historical conditions which made the 1909 publication of Lotus Buds<\/em> both possible in terms of its format and allowable in terms of its content.\u201d She is heavily critical of Carmichael\u2019s \u201crescue work,\u201d characterizing it as the abduction of the young and vulnerable. Wallace\u2019s article describes imperial representations of devadasis <\/em>and the concept of the \u201cnautch girl\u201d and how Carmichael\u2019s work reflects and utilizes colonial narratives of India to establish and justify her actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wallace examines the early 20th- century missionary and writer Amy Wilson Carmichael, focusing on her 1909 book Lotus Buds, an account of Carmichael\u2019s \u201crescue work\u201d in South India. Wallace describes her article as \u201can attempt to understand the historical conditions which made the 1909 publication of Lotus Buds both possible in terms of its format Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[64,65],"tags":[35,23,38,26],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-devadasis","category-history-tawaifs","tag-anti-nautch-movement","tag-history","tag-nautch","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