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1. Dance Matters

   Performing India on Local and Global Stages

   Edited by Pallabi Chakravorty, Nilanjana Gupta

   This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic...

   Published December 1st 2009 by Routledge India
2. Reading with Allah

   Madrasas in West Bengal

   By Nilanjana Gupta

   Based on extensive fieldwork and archival records, this book traces the emergence and flourishing of madrasas and the myriad ways in which they impact upon local Muslim communities, especially in West Bengal. It also addresses issues of identity, ‘secular’ education and gender in this context,...

   Published June 29th 2009 by Routledge India