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028			_a:Variety Books Publishers & Distributors _b:B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 _c:IM2508 _d:25/07/2019
082			_a950 THO
100			_aThobani, Sitara
245			_aIndian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities _b : Dancing on Empire's Stage _c/ Sitara Thobani
260			_aNew York _b : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, _c©2017
300			_ax, 192 pages _c ; 25 cm.
365			_b9179
490			_aRoutledge studies in anthropology, 35.
505			_a 1. Introduction -- 2. Setting the scene : a transcultural history of Indian dance -- 3. Keeping time : constructions and performances of historical narrative -- 4. Covering space : mobility, transnationalism, race -- 5. Playing roles : postcolonial performances of gender -- 6. Marking the stage : finding the religious, the spiritual and the secular in Indian classical dance -- 7. Conclusion
520			_aPrevious 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. Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when national cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its construction. The chapters in this volume addresses the questions: * What is the relation between the contemporary performance of Indian classical dance and the constitution of national, diasporic and multicultural identity? * Where/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? Based on an extensive ethnographic study of performances of Indian classical dance in the UK, this book should be of interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology, South Asian studies, Postcolonial, Transnational and Cultural studies and Theatre and Performance studies
650			_aHistory
650			_a History of Asia
650			_aEast Indians -- Great Britain -- Ethnic identity.
650			_aGreat Britain -- Ethnic relations.
650			_aDance -- India.
650			_aDance -- Social aspects.
650			_aDance and transnationalism.
650			_aDiaspora
650			_aDiaspora
700			_aThobani, Sitara
942			_cBOOK