Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Premodern India
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Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Premodern India

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  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Premodern India

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About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury India
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9789394701281
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Premodern India—Seema Bawa
  9. 1 Wine, Gods, Men and Women: Leisure in the Visual Culture of Early India—Seema Bawa
  10. 2 Dicing and Wrestling: Pursuit of Leisure through Chance and Combat in Early India—Suchandra Ghosh
  11. 3 Hunting and Dicing: Where Leisure Intersected with Masculine Aspiration in Early India—Smita Sahgal
  12. 4 A Royal Huntsman: The Ambiguity of the Hunt as Aristocratic Pastime in South Asia and Its Representation in Revanta Imagery—Marion Frenger
  13. 5 Leisure in Ancient Indian Drama: An Act of Proximity with Nature and Self—Mrityunjay Prabhakar
  14. 6 From Service to Entertainment: Music in Early Tamil India—T.K. Venkatasubramanian
  15. 7 Visualising Leisure in Jain Manuscript Paintings from Western India—Patrick Krüger
  16. 8 Transitions in Leisure: Gardens, Hunting and Public Entertainment—Vipul Singh
  17. 9 Gardens as Urban Leisure Landscape in Early India— Prem Kumar
  18. 10 Sleep as Leisure: Perspectives from Persian Literature—Farhat Nasreen
  19. 11 Poetic Pleasure, She‘r-o Sha‘iri, in Women’s Urdu Compositions: A Neglected Chapter at the Margins of Gendered Histories—Raziuddin Aquil
  20. 12 The Last Mushaira of Delhi: A Study of a Text and Recreation of a Past—Rakhshanda Jalil
  21. About the Editor and Contributors
  22. Index