Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reconceptualizing the Modern, the Region, and Princely Rule

1. Tipu Sultan’s War Colors and the Battle for Perspective
2. An Illusion of Permanence: Visualizing Legitimacy in Mysore
3. Srirangapatna: Capital City to Topography of Conquest
4. The Museumized Cityscape of Mysore
5. K. Venkatappa and the Fashioning of a Mysore Modern in Art
6. The Illicit in the Modern: Banning the Devadasi
7. The Licit in the Modern: Protecting the Child Wife
8. Giving the State a Nation: Revisiting Karnataka’s Reunification

Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Janaki Nair is professor of modern Indian history at the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India. Her books include The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century.

Reviews

"Mysore Modern presents a wide-ranging, forcefully argued, and impressively researched series of essays on the colonial and immediate post-colonial history of India’s ‘model’ princely state, Mysore. It is a significant and valuable contribution to our understanding of the role princely states played in the history of modern India." —William Glover, University of Michigan