NityasumangaliIn this book the author has first investigated the concept of the devadasi as found in the cultural history of South India, especialy in Tamil Nadu. Hereafter the function and form of the devadasi tradition are examined within the Temple Ritual of Tamil Nadu. This is not the study of the fact of the devadasi tradition, but of its meaning and the mode of production of that meaning. |
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Medieval Hinduism | 16 |
Period of the Tanjore courts and subsequent developments 338 | 38 |
sociocultural foci | 49 |
FUNCTION AND FORM OF THE DEVADASI TRADI | 87 |
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