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Dancing with the NationCourtesans in Bombay Cinema
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Ruth Vanita

Indian cinema is the only body of world cinema that depicts courtesans as important characters. In early films courtesan characters transmitted Indian classical dance, music and aesthetics to large audiences. They represent the nation's past, tracing their heritage to the fourth-century Kamasutra and to nineteenth-century courtly cultures, but they are also the first group of modern women in Hi…

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9781501334436
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1 online resource (232 pages)
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