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Author:   Soneji
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.654kg
ISBN:  

9780198065395

ISBN 10:   0198065396
Pages:   462
Publication Date:   19 March 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Davesh Soneji: Introduction; Section I: Devadasi Dance: History and Representation; Representations of Dance in Colonial South India; P. Ragaviah Charry: A Short Account of the Dancing Girls, Treating Concisely on the General Principles of Dancing and Singing, with the Translations of two Hindo Songs'; Joep Bor: 'Mamia, Ammani and other Bayaderes: Europe's Portrayal of India's Temple Dancers'; Community, Repertoire, and Aesthetics; Saskia Kersenboom: 'The Traditional Repertoire of the Tiruttani Temple Dancers'; Hari Krishnan: 'Inscribing Practice: Reconfigurations and Textualizations of Devadasi Repertoire in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century South India'; Davesh Soneji: 'Salon to Cinema: The Distinctly Modern Life of the Telugu Javali'; Anti-Nautch Revisited; Muthulakshmi Reddi: 'Why Should the Devadasi Institution in the Hindu Temples be Abolished?'; Madras Devadasis Association: 'The Humble Memorial of Devadasis of the Madras Presidency'; Amrit Srinivasan: 'Reform or Continuity? Temple Prostitution and the Community in the Madras Presidency'; Teresa Hubel: 'The High Cost of Dancing: When the Indian Women's Movement Went after the Devadasis'; Section II: Reinventing Dance in South India; New Beginnings? Voices from Twentieth Century Madras; V. Raghavan [Bhava Raga Tala]: 'Bharata Natya Classic Indian Dance, The South Indian Sadir Nautch: The Recent Controversy Over the Art'; Rukmini Devi Arundale: 'The Spiritual Background of Indian Dance'; T. Balasaraswati: 'Bharata Natyam'; Mathew Harp Allen: 'Rewriting the Script for South Indian Dance'; Anne-Marie Gaston: 'Dance and the Hindu Woman: Bharatanatyam Re-ritualized'; Section III: Contemporary Extensions; Janet O'Shea: 'At Home in the World? The Bharatanatyam Dancer as Transnational Interpreter'; Andree Grau: 'Political Activism and South Asian Dance: The Case of Mallika Sarabhai'; Anita Kumar: 'What's the Matter? Shakti's (Re)Collection of Race, Nationhood and Gender'; Section IV: Dancers Speak: Personal Journeys to and from Bharatanatyam; Mrinalini Sarabhai: 'Creations'; Avanthi Meduri: 'Bharatha Natyam: What Are You?'; Shobana Jeyasingh: 'Getting Off the Orient Express'; Chandralekha: 'Reflections on New Directions in Indian Dance'; Ananya Chatterjea: 'Sri: Feminist Visions for a Powerful Future' and 'Raga and Sloka: Troubling Femininity'; Acknowledgements

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Davesh Soneji is Assistant Professor of South Indian Religions at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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