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Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities: Dancing on Empire's Stage

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities: Dancing on Empire's Stage

Thobani, Sitara

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Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

AnthropologyGeneral Asian History

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ISBN10: 0367885417
ISBN13: 9780367885410
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 12 2019
Pages: 192
Language: English

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin.



Whereas most previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance in the context of Indian history and culture, this volume situates this dance practice in the longstanding trasnational linkages between India and the UK. What is the relation between the contemporary performance of Indian classical dance and the constitution of national, diasporic and multicultural identity? Where and how does Indian dance derive its productive power in the postcolonial moment? How do diasporic and nationalist representations of Indian culture intersect with depictions of British culture and politics? It is argued that classical Indian dance has become a key aspect of not only postcolonial South Asian diasporic identities, but also of British multicultural and transnational identity.

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