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The compelling story of a beautiful and versatile South Indian dance form
'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
For Centuries, The Devadasis Of India Were Regarded As Sacred Servants Who Devoutly Served Hindu Religious Images By Dancing Of Singing In The Temple . This Study Traces The Changes In The Social , Religious And Legal Status Of Devadasis With Particular Attention To Those Changes Government Policy Towards The Davadasis That Exemplify The Trends Towards Modernization And Secularization In India From The Adevent Of Direct British Rule In 1857 To Indian Independence In 1947 .
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This book is a study of the Bharata Natyam dance genre "padam" focusing on its patrons and composers and its formal structure, texts, and music. It examines the "rewriting" of South Indian dance and the decades-long debates over the classicization and ownership of South Indian music. The control over the representation of the arts is a subject that should resonate with scholars working in a wide variety of genres and across many countries. The study is diachronic (historical) and also synchronic (examining padams’ organizational structure as a system). Importantly, the text includes 30 Tamil language songs, minutely translated and annotated together with a documentation of their performanc...
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