DANCING WITH THE NATION by Ruth Vanita

DANCING WITH THE NATION

Ruth Vanita

272 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction emotional reflective medium-paced
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Acknowledging courtesans or tawaifs as central to popular Hindi cinema, Dancing with the Nation is the first book to show how the figure of the courtesan shapes the Indian erotic, political and religious imagination. Historically, courtesans exist...

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