Girls for sale: Kanyasulkam: A play from colonial India

Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam: A Play from Colonial India

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-226

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1. The date of Apparao's birth is reported variously as November 31, 1861, and September 21, 1862. Calculating the date according to the Gregorian calendar from information given in Apparao's horoscope, which records his birth according to the Telugu calendar, is ridden with problems. See Bandi Gopala Reddy (hereafter Bangorey), "Mundu mātalu," in Mǒttamǒdati kanyāśulkam (kanyatulkam First Version), edited by Bangorey (Nellore: Published by Bangorey, 1969), 30-31. Among the considerable research that has been done on the devadasis is Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Wives of the God-King: The Rituals of Devadasis of Puri (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985);
2. Saskia Kersenboom-Story, Nityasumaqgali:Devadāsi Tradition in South India (Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 1987);
3. A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman, When God Is a Customer:Telugu Courtesan Songs of Ksetrayya and Others (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994);
4. Samanta Banerjee, Dangerous Outcaste: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal (1998; reprint, Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2000);
5. Leslie Orr, Devotees and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000);
6. Kay K. Jordan, From Sacred Servant to Profane Prostitute: A History of the Changing Legal Status of Devadasis in India, 1857-1947 (New Delhi: Manohar, 2003);
7. Kalpana Kannabiran and Vasanta Kannabiran, Muvalur Ramamirthammal's Web of Deceit: Devadasi Reform in Colonial India (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 2003). However, not much scholarly work has been done on the Bogam women of Andhra. Devesh Soneji is currently engaged pioneering work in this area.
8. See his "Living History, Performing Memory:Devadāsī Women in Telugu-speaking South India," Dance Research Journal 36, no. 2 (Winter 2004): 30-49.
9. See also Priyadarshini Vijaisri, "Transcending the Devadasi: Reform and Patterns of Sacred Prostitution in Colonial Andhra," in Space, Sexuality and Postcolonial Cultures, edited by Manas Ray (Calcutta: Center for Studies in Social Sciences, 2003);
10. Vijaisri, "Contending Identities: Sacred Prostitution and Reform in Colonial India," South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 28, no. 3 (2005): 387-411;
11. and "The Temple Dancer," in Nancy Paxton, Writing Under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999), 83-108.
12. From John Gay's Beggar's Opera (edited by Peter Elfed Lewis [Edinburgh:Oliver & Boyd, 1973]), 60. The opera was first produced in London in 1728.
13. Lines from Jayadeva, Gitagovinda, 19.
14. For a translation and the original of the song, see Barbara Stoler Miller, Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gita Govinda, hardcover edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), 111-114 and 158-159.
15. Averse by Adidamu Sūrakavi (ca. 1720-1780). Girisam adapts the verse to his need by leaving out the last line, which names a certain Ponugupati Venkata Mantri, a minister at the Zamindari of Sringavarpukota in Vijayanagram District, about whom the poem was written. See K. V. R., Kanya-tulkam:Tika, Tippani 6;
16. Adidamu Ramaravu, Adidamu Sūrkavi Jīvitamu (Madras:Vavilla Ramasvami Sastrulu and Sons, 1955), 19 and 79-80.
17. "On Kinship and Friendship," in this volume 1.
18. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001).
19. V. Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Textures of Time: Writing History in South India 1600-1800 (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001).
20. See the afterwords to V. Narayana Rao and David Shulman, The Sound of the Kiss, Or A Story That Must Never Be Told (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004);
21. The Demon's Daughter: A Love Story from South India (Albany:State University of New York Press, 2006).
22. Also see D. Shulman, "Who Invented Modernity in South India and Is It Modern?" in Comparing Modernities:Essays in Homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg (Leiden: Brill, 2005), 395-412.
23. See Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka-Period Tamilnadu (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992).
24. See the afterword to V. Narayana Rao and D. Shulman, God on the Hill:Temple Poems from Tirupati (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
25. See Narayana Rao, Shulman, and Subrahmanyam, Symbols of Substance, 57-112;
26. A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman, When God Is a Customer (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
27. G. M. Young, ed. Speeches by Lord Macaulay with His Minute on Indian Education (London: Oxford University Press, 1935; reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1979), 359.
28. As quoted in Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin:Creation of a Prosaics (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990), 231-268. My presentation of Bakhtin's concept of polyphony follows chapter 6 of this book.
29. Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao, "Kanyā-Śulkam Nots," in Sarma and Prasad, Kanyā-Śulkam, 687-724.
30. Sripada Gopalakrishnamurti notes this in his "Madhura-vāni," in Sarma and Prasad, Kanyā-Śtulkam, 463-468.
31. For more detailed information on the status of the Telugu Pundit, see my "Historical After-Essay," in Velcheru Narayana Rao, Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry from India (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003).
32. For an excellent study of Tagore's ideal of love, see Sudipta Kaviraj, "Tagore and Transformations in the Ideals of Love," in Love in South Asia: ACultural History, edited by Francesca Orsini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 161-182.
33. See Narayana Rao, "A Historical After-Essay," especially 284-286.
34. Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993), 120.
35. See Rosinka Chaudhuri, "Hemchandra's Bharat Sangeet (1870) and the Politics of Poetry: A Pre-History of Hindu nationalism in Bengal?" Indian Economic and Social History Review 42, no. 2 (2005): 213-247.
36. See Richard King, Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India, and the "Mystic East" (London: Routledge, 2005), especially 118-142.