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Temple 'prostitution' and community reform : an examination of the ethnographic, historical and textual context of the devadasi of Tamil Nadu, South India

Srinivasan, AmritUniversity of Cambridge1984

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Adolescent Sexuality in Indian Criminal Law: Towards Balancing Autonomy and Vulnerability

Chaudhary, ShraddhaUniversity of Cambridge2024

… practices such as child marriage and devadasi dedication. Through an evidence-based discussion of the capacities and vulnerabilities of adolescents in sexual decision-making, I explain why the developing sexual autonomy of adolescents must be balanced with typical vulnerabilities that …

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Celluloid classicism: Early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanāṭyam

Krishnan, HariTexas Woman's University2017

This dissertation investigates how two of the most prominent cultural forms of modern South India—Tamil cinema and Bharatanāṭyam dance—share complex and deeply intertwined histories. It addresses the entangled emergence of these two modern art forms from the 1930s to the 1950s, which were decades …

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