Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Reader 1
Arash Khazeni
Reader 2
Piya Chatterjee
Reader 3
Cindy Forster
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Abstract
This thesis investigates the dynamics between devadasi women and judges in the Anglo-Indian court in the Madras Presidency of 19th-century colonial India. The thesis focuses on how the devadasis navigated the colonial legal system and the strategies they utilized as well as the role of the judges' preconceived notions and prejudice in determining the decisions they made.
Recommended Citation
Ravikumar, Meghana, "The Dancer vs. The Adjudicator: Devadasi Resistance in the 19th-Century Court" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 987.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/987
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
