Leisure is a corollary to pleasure. Essays in this historical exploration trace how leisure and recreation were often imagined and celebrated during premodern times, from the ancient to the precolonial period.
This book takes into account the differential access to leisure and pleasure based on class and gender where masculinity is projected through manly sports and femininity though beauty and indulgence in the projection of recreation, entertainment and luxury. The counter-discourse representing labour for those who cater for this leisure is invisibilized as is their transactional nature.
The volume dwells on the attitudes, prescribed and proscribed, and brings to the fore the differences across religious ideologies such as Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jaina and Muslim in various periods. Further it looks at leisure in the various classes and cultural spaces such as the elite, women, the king in the bed chamber, the court with dancing girls, public areas such as orchards and gardens and performance spaces.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Introduction: Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Premodern IndiaâSeema Bawa
- 1 Wine, Gods, Men and Women: Leisure in the Visual Culture of Early IndiaâSeema Bawa
- 2 Dicing and Wrestling: Pursuit of Leisure through Chance and Combat in Early IndiaâSuchandra Ghosh
- 3 Hunting and Dicing: Where Leisure Intersected with Masculine Aspiration in Early IndiaâSmita Sahgal
- 4 A Royal Huntsman: The Ambiguity of the Hunt as Aristocratic Pastime in South Asia and Its Representation in Revanta ImageryâMarion Frenger
- 5 Leisure in Ancient Indian Drama: An Act of Proximity with Nature and SelfâMrityunjay Prabhakar
- 6 From Service to Entertainment: Music in Early Tamil IndiaâT.K. Venkatasubramanian
- 7 Visualising Leisure in Jain Manuscript Paintings from Western IndiaâPatrick KrĂźger
- 8 Transitions in Leisure: Gardens, Hunting and Public EntertainmentâVipul Singh
- 9 Gardens as Urban Leisure Landscape in Early Indiaâ Prem Kumar
- 10 Sleep as Leisure: Perspectives from Persian LiteratureâFarhat Nasreen
- 11 Poetic Pleasure, Sheâr-o Shaâiri, in Womenâs Urdu Compositions: A Neglected Chapter at the Margins of Gendered HistoriesâRaziuddin Aquil
- 12 The Last Mushaira of Delhi: A Study of a Text and Recreation of a PastâRakhshanda Jalil
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Index
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