Archives and Afterlives of Nautch Dancers in India

About the author

Prarthana Purkayastha is a Reader in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway University of London. She is the author of Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism (2014), which won the 2015 de la Torre Bueno Prize and the 2015 Outstanding Publication Award from the Dance Studies Association. She is co-editor (with Anurima Banerji) of the Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance.

Product details

• Authors: Prarthana Purkayastha, Purkayastha Prarthana
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781009396868
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0939686-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Dance, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance, Asian History