{"id":882,"date":"2021-01-11T15:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T20:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=882"},"modified":"2021-02-25T16:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:40:41","slug":"pillai-mannu-s-muddupalani-the-woman-who-had-no-reason-for-shame-the-hindu-2-june-2018-accessed-11-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Pillai, Mannu S. &#8220;Muddupalani: The Woman Who Had No Reason for Shame.&#8221; The Hindu, 2 June 2018. Accessed 11 January 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This article is available for free online at The Hindu: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/society\/history-and-culture\/the-woman-who-had-no-reason-for-shame\/article24057695.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/society\/history-and-culture\/the-woman-who-had-no-reason-for-shame\/article24057695.ece<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This article profiles Muddupalani (1730-1790), a devadasi in the court of Pratapasimha, who wrote poetry &#8220;unsurpassed in harmony and eroticism.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pillai explores how Mudduplani was proud, respected, and rich, and how she rejected modesty. It touches upon how devadasis lost their wealth and status as &#8220;Indian society absorbed from the British an overblown sense of Victorian piety&#8221; and how Muddupalani&#8217;s works, including her Telugu epic, the <em>Radhika Santwanamu<\/em>, became scandalized<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is available for free online at The Hindu: https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/society\/history-and-culture\/the-woman-who-had-no-reason-for-shame\/article24057695.ece Summary This article profiles Muddupalani (1730-1790), a devadasi in the court of Pratapasimha, who wrote poetry &#8220;unsurpassed in harmony and eroticism.&#8221; Pillai explores how Mudduplani was proud, respected, and rich, and how she rejected modesty. It touches upon how devadasis lost their wealth and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=882\">Read More &#8230;<\/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":[64,53],"tags":[34,144,128,26],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-devadasis","category-profiles","tag-devadasi","tag-muddupalani","tag-open-source-free","tag-secondary-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}