The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur’s Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century 0691201846, 9780691201849
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The Place of Many Moods
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The Place of Many Moods udaipur’s painted lands and india’s eighteenth century Dipti Khera
princeton university press Princeton and Oxford
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For Puneet, who makes my worlds possible. In memory of Allison Busch, who inspired inimitable moods for learning and listening.
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Contents
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Medium of Moods and Picturing of Place
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Enlarging Painted Places and Imagining Moods Anew 27 ch ap t e r 2 .
Passionate Monsoons and Monumental Paintings
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Worlds of Pleasure and Politics of Connoisseurship
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Modes of Knowing and Skills of Drawing 117 ch ap t e r 5 .
Charismatic Places and Colonial Spaces 147 co nc lus i o n .
Memorializing Moods and Recovering Histories 173
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Acknowledgments
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Note on Transliteration
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Medium of Moods and Picturing of Place
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historicizing india’s eighteenth century
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Enlarging Painted Places and Imagining Moods Anew
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building a city of lakes
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maps and moods
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pictorial translations— the mood of kota palace
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describing, inscribing, dwelling
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the mood of the monsoon
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the place of rains and lakes
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urban, material, and emotional expansions
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mood of a party
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building the “world of pleasure”
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mobilizing pleasures, idealizing abodes
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iterating moods and memories
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imagining “the aid of the natives”
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elevation of devotion, c. 1830
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optics of the first indo-british durbar, c. 1832
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mobility, moods, modernity
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Charismatic Places and Colonial Spaces
circulating pictures, letters, and people
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unscrolling moods, contesting maps
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Memorializing Moods and Recovering Histories
moods, materiality, and potentiality
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the immersion of the spectator and the scholar
the independence of architecture
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Notes
introduction. medium of moods and picturing of place
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chapter 1. enlarging painted places and imagining moods anew .
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chapter 2. passionate monsoons and monumental paintings
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chapter 3. worlds of pleasure and politics of connoisseurship
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chapter 5. charismatic places and colonial spaces
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conclusion. memorializing moods and recovering histories appendix
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Bibliography
manuscript sources
printed primary sources
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secondary sources
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