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Beyond the Horizon

By: UMA BALASUBRAMANIAM

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Beyond the Horizon' is a journey of a dreamer who goes through childhood and adolescence walking the primrose path of fantasy. Married at twenty, she is pushed from this path to tread one submerged in prejudice, deceit and subterfuge while trying to find her feet in the ethos of Brahmanical culture to which she finds herself an alien. From a childhood governed by algebraic equations and riders, to murders and arsenic, the protagonist finds her hands full.

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Partridge Publishing

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148285712X

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9781482857122

Deities and Devotees

Cinema, Religion, and Politics in South India

By: Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda

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Deities and Devotees

Cinema, Religion, and Politics in South India

By: Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda

How have cinema and popular religion shaped each other? Is the display of devotion in a cinema hall the same as devotion in a temple? How do we understand cinema’s compelling power to mesmerize people? Unlike Hindi cinema, mythological and devotional films remained popular genres in Telugu (and Tamil too) until quite recently. The political success of film star N.T. Rama Rao, well-known for his portrayal of gods and kings, posed afresh the problem of cinema’s power to enthral. To what extent viewers were persuaded of his divinity became a matter of debate. In later decades, the figure of another kind of viewer haunted the discourses around cinema, that of the female viewer who got possessed during screenings of goddess films. Using questions around viewership as the focal point, this book studies the intersections between popular cinema, religion, and politics in South India. The first full-length study of Telugu mythological and devotional films, it combines an account of the history and politics of these genres with an anthropology of film-making and viewership practices. It argues that cinema and other audio-visual technologies lead to the re-orientation of sensibilities and the cultivation of new sensory modes.

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318

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Oxford University Press

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019909327X

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9780199093274

SAYAJIRAO GAEKWAD III

By: Uma Balasubramaniam

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SAYAJIRAO GAEKWAD III

By: Uma Balasubramaniam

Maharaja sayajirao gaekwad III of Baroda state Tower over all the other rulers of princely states in British India. The book not only documents how a Maratha farmer's son became a Maharaja by a twist of fate, but also reveals interesting details about how the 'favourite son' Of the British Empire found himself on the brink of being deposed by the British.

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9353337925

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9789353337926

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Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon

Deities and Devotees

Deities and Devotees

SAYAJIRAO GAEKWAD III

SAYAJIRAO GAEKWAD III

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