Locating the Tawa'if Courtesan-Dancer: Cinematic Constructions of Religion and Nation.

The development of the Hindi/Urdu cinema is intimately connected to the history of artistic performance in India in two important ways. Not only did hereditary music and dance practitioners play key roles in building this cinema, representations of these performers and their practices have been, and...

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Published in:	Journal of Religion & Popular Culture Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 138 - 154
Main Author:	Thobani, Sitara
Format:	Article
Published:	University of California Press Fall2021
Subjects:	Narration in motion pictures Indian films Muslim identity Religions Dance in motion pictures, television, etc. Mosques India
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost