List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements: Looking for Hur in History -- Introduction: Pleasures-Proscribed and Prescribed -- 1. Seeking Pleasure: Representations of Pleasure and Domesticity in Textual Traditions /Jaya S. Tyagi -- 2. Idyllic, Intimate, Beautiful Pleasures in Visual Culture at Mathura / Seema Bawa -- 3. Satire and Desire in Caturbhani / Ashish Abrol and Janica Paul -- 4. Courting Pleasure in Ravana's Lanka : The Aesthetics of Power and Desire in Early Medieval Deccan / Parul Pandya Dhar -- 5. Pleasant and Unpleasant Moments: The Life and Time of a Jain Merchant in Early Modern North India / Shalin Jain -- 6. 'Aashiq ko tow Allah na Dikhlaai Bhudhapa': Nazir Akbarabadi and the Celebrations of the Little Pleasures of Life in Urdu Poetry / Raziuddin Aquil -- 7. Painting Pleasure: The Genealogy and Dichotomies of Gender-based Identities / Preeti Sharma -- 8. Celebrating Adversities in the 17th and early 18th Century North India: The Case of Mir Ja'far Zatalli / Saifuddin Ahmad -- 9. Pleasures of Fashion and Sorrows of Production: The Handloom Industry in United Provinces, India, 1860s-1940s / Santosh Kumar Rai -- 10. Devotion and Pleasure: Vantages of Rebellion / Kota Neelima --About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.
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