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The grace of four moons : dress, adornment, and the art of the body in modern India / Pravina Shukla ; photographs by Pravina Shukla and Henry Glassie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shukla, Pravina.
- Series:
- Material culture (Indiana University, Bloomington)
- Material culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress--India.
- Clothing and dress.
- Dress accessories.
- Wedding costume.
- Saris.
- India.
- Saris--India.
- Wedding costume--India.
- Dress accessories--India.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 498 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Body art in Banaras
- Getting ready
- Gaze, sacred and secular
- Shopping for clothes
- Weaving saris
- Making jewelry
- Kanhaiya Lal
- Shopping along the Vishvanath Gali
- Assembling bangle sets
- Nina Khanchandani
- Neelam Chaturvedi
- Mukta Tripathi
- After the wedding
- Before the wedding
- The wedding
- The study of body art.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-490) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253349118
- 0253349117
- OCLC:
- 148984537
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