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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.

Dark star: the loneliness of being Rajesh Khanna

Chintamani, Gautam

A comprehensive biography of Rajesh Khanna, the enigmatic hero for whom the term `superstar' was coined.

Dates.sites: project cinema: city Bombay/Mumbai

Dutta, Madhusree et al (ed.)

ISBN: 9788189487997, 818948799X

Presents a timeline of the city of Bomaby/Mumbai in the 20th century, anchored to its most adored public institution: cinema.

The dawn of new entertainment genre: history of development of professional Bengali and Gujarati public stage, 1870-1940

Mitra, Sunetra

ISBN: 9788182060555, 8182060559

Death must die: a western woman's life-long spiritual quest in India and its fulfilment through her guru: Shree Anandamayee Ma; the diaries of Atmananda, ed. with introd., comm....

ISBN: 9788186569191, 8186569197

...and final chapter by Ram Alexander.;;;This book gives an intimate first-hand account of a courageous woman's spiritual quest in close association with several of India's greatest modern saints. Unfolding against the back-drop of Benares in the 1940s, where she lived as a teacher and musician, we are given an in-depth picture of her intense relationship with the extraordinary woman who become...

Folk culture in India

Pandey, SP et al.

ISBN: 9788186771419, 8186771417

This book depicts the perspective of folk culture and analyses the dynamics of socio-cultural folk traditions, particularly songs, theatres, dance, drama and dances of various communities of northern India.

Pre-partition Punjab's contribution to Indian cinema

Ahmed, Ishtiaq

ISBN: 9789350027400, 9350027402

This book traces the contribution of Punjabis born before the partition of India, Punjab and Bengal in 1947 to Indian cinema telling the story of their contribution at three centres of Hindustani-language films at Bombay, Calcutta and Lahore.

Decoding bollywood: stories of 15 film directors

Golani, Sonia

ISBN: 9789384030308, 9384030309

Deep focus: reflections on cinema, ed. by Sandeep Ray, foreword by Shyam Benegal

Ray, Satyajit

ISBN: 9789350291351, 9350291355

Satyajit Ray is acknowledged as one of the world's finest film-makers. He was also a bestselling writer of novels and short stories, and possibly the only Indian film-maker who wrote prolifically on cinema. This book brings together, for the first time in one volume, some of his most cerebral writings on film.

The Natakalaksanaratnakosa of Sagaranandin: a thirteenth-century treatise on the Hindu theatre

Raghavan, V.

A descriptive catalogue of Persian translations of Indian works, ed. by Sharif Husain Qasemi

ISBN: 9789380829289, 9380829280

A Descriptive Catalogue of Persian Translations of Indian Works is the first attempt of its kind. Manuscripts and published editions of the works related to Hindu religion, philosophy, mysticism, Indian culture, science, music, history, romance, historical and semi-historical tales and moral fables and some works on Sikh religion have been catalogued in this volume.