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Hari Krishnan

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Texts

• Soneji, Davesh. 2008. “Memory and the Recovery of Identity: Living Histories and the Kalavantulu of Coastal Andhra Pradesh.” In Performing Pasts: Reinventing the Arts in Modern South India, ed. Indira Viswanathan Peterson and Devesh Soneji.
• Gaston, Anne-Marie. 1996. “Training of Bharata Natyam Teachers.” In Bharata Natyam: From Temple to Theatre. Delhi: Manohar.
• Kersenboom, Saskia. 1991. “The Traditional Repertoire of the Tiruttani Temple Dancers.” In Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women, ed. Julia Leslie.  Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
• Krishnan, Hari. 2008. “Inscribing Practice: Reconfigurations and Textualizations of Devadasi Repertoire in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century South India.”  In Performing Pasts: Reinventing the Arts in Modern South India, ed. Indira Viswanathan Peterson and Devesh Soneji.
• Narayana Rao, Velcheru and David Shulman. 2002. “Muddupalani.” In Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Allen, Matthew Harp. 1997. “Rewriting the Script for South Indian Dance.” The Drama Review, 41 (3), 63-100.
• Arundale, Rukmini. 1948. “Bhava, Raga, Tala.” In Some Selected Speeches and Writings of Rukmini Devi Arundale (Vol. 1), ed. Shakuntala Ramani. Chennai: Kalakshetra Foundation [2003]. 
• Balasaraswati, T. [1975]. “On Bharatanatyam.” In Sangeet Natak 72-73 (April-September 1984): 8-14.
• Srinivasan, Amrit. 1988. “Reform or Continuity?  Temple ‘Prostitution’ and the Community in  the Madras Presidency.” In Structures of Patriarchy: State, Community and Household in Modernising Asia, ed. Bina Agarwal. Delhi: Kali for Women.
• Whitehead, Judith. 1998. “Community Honor/Sexual Boundaries: A Discursive Analysis of Devadasi Criminalization in Madras, India, 1920-1947.” In Prostitution: On Whores, Hustlers, and Johns, ed. James E. Elias et al. New York: Prometheus Books.
• Ramanujan, A.K., Velchuru Narayana Rao and David Shulman. 1994. When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Viswanathan, T. and Matthew Allen. 2004. “Contextualizing South Indian Performance, Socially and Historically.” In Music in South India: The Karnatak Concert Tradition and Beyond. New York: Oxford University Press.
• O’Shea, Janet. “Tradition and the Individual Dancer.” In At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
• Chatterjea, Ananya. “Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification.” In Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader, ed. Ann Dils and Anna Cooper Albright. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
• Grau, Andrée. 2007. “Political Activism and South Asian Dance: The Case of Mallika Sarabhai.” South Asia Research 27 (1): 43-55