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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

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Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

AnthropologyGeneral Asian History

ISBN10: 1138229989
ISBN13: 9781138229983
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 22 2017
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance as an expression of Indian religious and nationalist culture, examining the art form solely in the context of Indian history and culture. In investigating performances of Indian classical dance in the UK it is possible to argue that classical Indian dance has become a key aspect of the mutual constitution of not only postcolonial Indian and South Asia diasporic identities, but also of British multicultural and transnational identity. This book explores what happens when national cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its construction.

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