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Mysore Modern reconceptualizes modernity in India using the history
of the Princely State of Mysore. In this forcefully argued work,
Janaki Nair critiques earlier notions of the native states of India
as spaces that were either defined entirely by the dominant
narratives of colonial/national modernity or were relatively
untouched by them. Grounded in political history, and deriving
insights from a wide range of visual, social, and legal texts and
issues, Mysore Modern reperiodizes the modern by connecting these
apparently discrepant registers to build up a case for a
specifically regional, "monarchical modern" moment in Indian
history. Nair examines mural and portraiture traditions, as well as
forms of memorialization and nationalization of art and
architectural practices. The volume also considers bureaucratic
efforts centered on the use of law and development as instruments
of modernity. As Nair demonstrates, the resolution of struggles
about the significance of the past in the present, the control of
women's sexuality and labor, and the role of the bureaucracy in
Mysore reveal the imperatives of taking the region as the inaugural
site for writing a history of Indian modernity.
Has there been a 'conspiracy of silence' regarding sexuality in
India, be it within social movements or as a focus of scholarship?
A Question of Silence? interrogates this assumption in order to
thematise a crucial field. Prefaced by a detailed introductory
overview, the essays use diverse perspectives to develop an
understanding of the institutions, practices and forms of
representation of sexual relations and their boundaries of
legitimacy. From unravelling the Kamasutra (the text) to
investigating KamaSutra (the condom) the volume includes essays on
how sexuality has been framed by the law, within social movements,
or has been the site for patrolled caste, ethnic or gender
identities. Other essays analyse cinematic, televisual and literary
representations of sexuality. Taken as a whole, this book makes
room for more wide-ranging approaches for tackling the sexual
economies of desire and violence among men and women in modern
India.
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