The cultural heritage of India, Vol.VII, Part-2: The arts, ed. by Kapila Vatsyayan

ISBN: 9789381325278, 9381325278

The present volume deals with study of arts in India, here more specifically painting; music, dance and theatre; art and life. There are forty-four articles contributed by 35 authors.

Cultural history of modern India

Menon, Dilip M (ed.)

ISBN: 9788187358251, 8187358254

Six essays present original and pioneering forays in the study of cricket, oral history, gender studies, film, popular culture and Indian classical music.

Cultural history of modern India, 2nd edn.

Menon, Dilip M.

ISBN: 9789386392602, 9386392607

The seven essays in this collection present original and pioneering forays in the study of cricket, oral history, gender studies, film, popular culture and Indian classical music.

Khurasan and Sistan, London, 1900

Reprint: xxii,314p., (2)maps.,(13)pls., bib., ind., 25x19cm.

Cultural study of Hoysala inscriptions

Gopal, R (b.1963)

The Hoysalas, an important dynasty of South India issued over three thousand inscriptions which are replete with data onsocial and cultural life in early medieval period. The author has examined these epigraphs in detail to offer to historians a comprehensive picture of Jainism, Srivaishnavism, Saivism, system of education, music and dance, the inscriptional poets, the role of women in social a...

Cultural tourism and performing arts of Andhra Pradesh: prospects and perspectives

Uday, Vanaja

ISBN: 9788189131586, 8189131583

Culture, society and development in India: essays for Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Sanyal, Manoj Kumar et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788125037071, 8125037071

This volume collects essays by authors across disciplines and offers glimpses of the many shades of the cultural life of a nations art, language and literature, music, gender studies and films.

Dagars & dhrupad: divine legacy

Quraishi, Humra

ISBN: 9789383098750, 9383098759

The book gives glimpses of the rich heritage of this haunting form of music that has enthralled audiences worldwide. It traces the history of the illustrious Dagar family through 20 generations of dhrupad singers and highlights their distinctive approach to this unique form of music. Rare photographs make the book all the more special.

Dance as yoga: the spirit and technique of Odissi

Tandon, Rekha

ISBN: 9789385285844, 938528584X

This book addresses the background, technique and embodiment of the Odissi dance form. It describes Odissi's mechanism for creating, dispersing, and expressing energy, as well as some early experiments in choreography that extended its accepted parameters with reference to Choreological Studies.

Dance drama in theory and practice., Vol.1

Ramaratnam, S

ISBN: 9788121512589, 8121512581

This book is a documentation of nearly a hundred years of growth and development of a precious art-form that developed in south India, more particularly in Tamil Nadu. The origin of Dance Drama may be traced to the Sanskrit Drama which is firmly grounded in lyrics and music.

Dance matters too: markets, memories, identities, ed. by Pallabi Chakravorty et al.

ISBN: 9781138106376, 1138106372

Dance matters: performing India

Chakravorty, Pallabi et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9780415553759, 041555375X

This collection of ideas, practices and narratives looks at dance as a lived and practiced phenomenon in contemporary times, bringing together the experiences and vision of theorists as well as practitioners.

Dance music and ritual in Manipur, photographs and text by Byron Aihara

ISBN: 9789937623582, 9937623588

Dance theatre of India: crossing new aesthetics and cultures, by Katia Legeret-Manochhaya

ISBN: 9789386906366, 9386906368

Dance with jhalak dikhhla jaa, introd. by Saroj Khan

Sarma, Ramya

ISBN: 9788184000917, 818400091X

It is the first complete handbook on how to dance to your favourite Bollywood number. It also offer a step-by-step guide for dance moves on different occasions and for different groups.

The dance: Orissi

Khokar, Mohan and Ashish Khokar

ISBN: 9788170174387, 8170174384

The story of Orissi is the story of the performing arts of Orissa for it is one form in which music, dance and drama coalesce. Its connections with the temples and the courts, the dancers and the gurus can be traced and has been traced in this historical doucuments. This is the first-ever in depth, authoritative and scholarly account on the intricate and extensive heritage and history of the fo...

Dancescapes: a photographic journey, curated by Alka Pande

Singh, Shobha Deepak

ISBN: 9788174369611, 8174369619

The author's photographs are a telling documentation of the history of dance in post-independence India. Shobha has been photographing dancers and dance productions ranging from solos to groups to operatic productions; and from traditional to modern to contemporary dance productions.

Dancing with Devtas: drums, power and possession in the music of Garhwal, North India

Alter, Andrew

ISBN: 9781138745025, 1138745022

Dancing with the nation: courtesans in Bombay cinema

Vanita, Ruth

ISBN: 9789386702906, 9386702908

Acknowledging courtesans or tawaifs as central to popular Hindi cinema, this book shows how the figure of the courtesan shapes the Indian erotic, political and religious imagination. Historically, courtesans existed outside the conventional patriarchal family and carved a special place for themselves with their independent spirit, witty conversations and transmission of classical music and danc...

Dapha: sacred singing in a South Asian city: music, performance and meaning in Bhaktapur, Nepal

Widdess, Richard

ISBN: 9781138895751, 113889575X

Dapha, or dapha bhajan, is a genre of Hindu-Buddhist devotional singing, performed by male, non-professional musicians of the farmer and other castes belonging to the Newar ethnic group, in the towns and villages of the Kathmandu Valley.