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Forever Louise Brooks
ForeverLouiseB1
Louise strikes a pose as a “nautch girl” Indian dancer for a series of Paramount publicity photos by Eugene Richee, 1928. (Thread) “Nautch girls” had been a unique class of
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g katyan misra
kamlesm
#Nautch party? as it is titled. that was common word referred to such #dance#sarangi #tambura #cymbol accompanied by clapping to-to give flow of beats?but dress does not matches with titled-where
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RiderOnTheStorm
swatieyz
btw india has 8 classical dance forms and kathak is the only one that comes from north india. that too thanks to the mughals. we owe. the same dancers who
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Khawar Khan
khawar_achakzai
PROSTITUTION IN KASHMIR(Graphic post)Kalhana has censured some of the kings like Kalasha, Kshemagupta, Uccala and Marsha for patronizing prostitutes, paramours and courtesans. It was Sultan Sikander who is reported to
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Agniras (Gems of Indology)
GemsOfIndology
THREAD on once most respected profession COURTESAN, GANIKA, ended up in undignified NAUTCH GIRL, PROSTITUTESThe only entertainment in NON-TV age became NOT only OBSOLETE but an ABUSE in modern age.A
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Sunny Singh
ProfSunnySingh
My talk is Empire Shoots Back: Post-coloniality in Bollywood Film https://histfest.com/products/sunny-singhAnd to give you a taster, here is a thread of some of the things I’ll be talking about. And
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