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I can’t. DNFing this book. This is very infuriating. To top that, I just came across an article that says ‘Bharatanatyam was deliberately separated from Sudra bodies in the 1930s by upper caste cultural nationalists’.
Like what!!!
These folks don’t really have the guts nor the common sense to look into what separated the Devadasis from their arts, their inherited knowledge systems, their lifestyle… (contd)

No! No! No! This book is so infuriating, in so many ways that I don't even know where to start.
*Taking a deep breath*
Will continue to read to know how a non-Indian who 'spent several months in South India learning about Devadasis' became an expert not just on Devadasis but also bhakti movement and various Hindu Saints and seers and their literature to an extent that each chapter (contd in comments)

No! No! This book is so infuriating, in so many ways that I don't even know where to start.
*Taking a deep breath*
Will read to know how a non-Indian who 'spent several months in South India learning about Devadasis' became an expert not just on Devadasis but also bhakti movement and various Hindu Saints and seers and their literature to an extent that each chapter (contd in comments, reached char limit)

Loving it till now. Vibrant and lively.