Author: Hari Krishnan
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0819578886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of De La Torre Bueno First Book Special Citation, given by DSA, 2021 Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance. It addresses representations of dance in the cinema from an interdisciplinary, critical-historical perspective. The intertwined and symbiotic histories of these forms have never received serious scholarly attention. For the most part, historians of South Indian cinema have noted the presence of song and dance sequences in films, but have not historicized them with reference to the simultaneous revival of dance culture among the middle-class in this region. In a parallel manner, historians of dance have excluded deliberations on the influence of cinema in the making of the "classical" forms of modern India. Although the book primarily focuses on the period between the late 1920s and 1950s, it also addresses the persistence of these mid-twentieth century cultural developments into the present. The book rethinks the history of Bharatanatyam in the twentieth century from an interdisciplinary, transmedia standpoint and features 130 archival images.
Author: Douglas M. Knight
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2010-06-15
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0819569062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An intimate portrait of one of the great performing artists of the twentieth century
Author: Ahalya Satkunaratnam
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2020-03-10
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0819578916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of De La Torre First Book, given by DSA, 2021 Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict is a groundbreaking ethnographic examination of dance practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the civil war (1983–2009). It is the first book of scholarship on bharata natyam (a classical dance originating in India) in Sri Lanka, and the first on the role of this dance in the country's war. Focusing on women dancers, Ahalya Satkunaratnam shows how they navigated conditions of conflict and a neoliberal, global economy, resisted nationalism and militarism, and advocated for peace. Her interdisciplinary methodology combines historical analysis, methods of dance studies, and dance ethnography.
Author: PUBLICATIONS DIVISION
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Published:
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 8123030118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume 1 contains a selection from speeches delivered by Shri R. Venkataraman as Vice-President of India. These speeches outline his perceptions of the nations's priorities, imperatives and goals. They bring to bear on a variety of themes, the accumulated experience of Shri Venkataraman's participation in India's public life which commenced in the early 1930s.
The Publications Division will also be bringing out volumes of Shri Venkataraman's subsequent speeches and writings as President of India.
Author: Rashtrapati Bhavan
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Published: 2024-05-15
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 8119936094
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume is a collection of the speeches of President Droupadi Murmu delivered during the first year of her Presidency.
Author: Naisargi N. Davé
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2023-06-30
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1478027134
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Indifference, Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal activists, farmers, laborers, transporters, and animals themselves, and moving across animal shelters and dairy farms to city streets and abattoirs, Davé shows how human-animal relations often manifest through care and violence. More surprisingly, what Davé also finds animating interspecies relationality in India is an ethic of indifference---that is, an orientation of mutual regard rather than curiosity, love, desire, or animus. For Davé, indifference is a respect for others in their otherness that allows human and nonhuman animals to flourish in immanent encounters. Indifference, then, becomes the basis for an interspecies ethics and a method of care and practice in everyday life. With indifference, Davé describes both a mode of relationality in the world and a scholarly approach: seeking what is possible when we approach ethico-political concepts with indifference rather than commitment or antagonism. Moments of indifference, Davé contends, offer the promise of otherwise worlds.
Author: Nirupama Chaturvedi
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study is an analysis of the presentation of sculptures as fulfilling the dictates of postures defined in the various dance treatises. It also embodies an interlink of textual literary and archaeological sources to prove convincingly the unity of inner and outer in the India tradition