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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)
— Jun 23, 2022 01:25AM
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)
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Veda
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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)
— Jun 12, 2022 01:40AM
*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)
Veda
is on page 80 of 408
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)
— Jun 12, 2022 01:33AM
*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)
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Jun 23, 2022 01:27AM
And they now cry on the so-called upper caste folks. Let me say this for once and all, blame colonialism, blame that damn Victorian morality, blame those missionaries who were and are still hellbent on destroying and demonising and vilifying anything and everything related to Hinduism and Sanatana Dharma, including these beautiful arts and their torch bearers. Argh!!!! I will come back to this book after I have read the rest of the books that I have on devadasi system.
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Such nonsense. This is what happens when books are written to suit an agenda.
Please dont give up. Do rate and review it.
