Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance

About the author

Anurima Banerji is Associate Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the critical historicization of Indian dance and its relationship to the state. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Dancing Odissi: Paratopic Performances of Gender and State (2019) and co-editor with Violaine Roussel of How to Do Politics with Art (2017).

Prarthana Purkayastha is Reader in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway University of London. Her interdisciplinary research draws on dance studies, performance studies and critical race, feminist and post/de/colonial theories. She is the author of Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism (2014) and the Principal Investigator of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council funded 'South Asian Dance Equity'/SADE project (2023-2025).

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that brings together cutting-edge research on Indian dance by scholars and practitioners across the globe. It highlights key social and political dimensions of Indian dance and intersecting concerns such as ability, caste, class, gender, nationhood, race, region, religion, and sexuality.

Product details

• Authors: Anurima (Associate Professor Banerji
• Assisted by: Anurima Banerji (Editor), Banerji Anurima (Editor), Prarthana Purkayastha (Editor), Purkayastha Prarthana (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.06.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9780197526224
• ISBN: 978-0-19-752622-4
• No. of pages: 816
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Dance, ART / Performance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Reference, Other performing arts, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India, Folk Dancing