Prarthana Purkayastha

Anurima Banerji

Associate Professor Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Anurima Banerji

Reader in the Department of Drama Theatre and Dance Prarthana Purkayastha

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that brings together cutting-edge research on Indian dance by scholars and practitioners across the globe. It highlights key social and political dimensions of Indian dance and intersecting concerns such as ability, caste, class, gender, nationhood, race, region, religion, and sexuality.

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance

This book examines modern dance as a form of embodied resistance to political and cultural nationalism in India through the works of five selected modern dance makers: Rabindranath Tagore, Uday Shankar, Shanti Bardhan, Manjusri Chaki Sircar and Ranjabati Sircar.

Prarthana Purkayastha

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