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.

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• 1. Nautch in Colonial human exhibits, and the (Im)possibility of dance reenactments; 2. Insurgent gestures: bibis in nineteenth-century Bengali art; 3. Sundaris and Jans in the age of mechanical reprodarshan; 4. Joyous courtesan worlds: Amod (Pleasure), Alladi (Indulgence) and Indubala's scrapbook; Afterlives of nautch; Bibliography; Index.

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.

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• 1. Nautch in Colonial human exhibits, and the (Im)possibility of dance reenactments; 2. Insurgent gestures: bibis in nineteenth-century Bengali art; 3. Sundaris and Jans in the age of mechanical reprodarshan; 4. Joyous courtesan worlds: Amod (Pleasure), Alladi (Indulgence) and Indubala's scrapbook; Afterlives of nautch; Bibliography; Index.

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.

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• 1. Nautch in Colonial human exhibits, and the (Im)possibility of dance reenactments; 2. Insurgent gestures: bibis in nineteenth-century Bengali art; 3. Sundaris and Jans in the age of mechanical reprodarshan; 4. Joyous courtesan worlds: Amod (Pleasure), Alladi (Indulgence) and Indubala's scrapbook; Afterlives of nautch; Bibliography; Index.