Prarthana Purkayastha
Biographic Data
| ID | 3680225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prarthana Purkayastha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prarthana |
| FAMILY NAME | Purkayastha |
| SIGNATURE | PURKAYASTHA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5445-134X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that consolidates novel research and contemporary analytical approaches to critical Indian dance studies from across the world. It explores new frontiers of scholarship suggested by its contributing authors and calls attention to urgent agendas that are central to the current field of Indian dance studies. The volume highlights key social and political dimensions of Indian dance a…
The Archives and Afterlives of Nautch Dancers in India
In a time of colonial subjugation, subaltern, illicit and courtesan dancers in India radically disturbed racist, casteist and patriarchal regimes of thought. The criminalized 'nautch' dancer, vilified by both British colonialism and Indian nationalism, appears in this book across multiple locations, materials and timelines: from colonial human exhibits in London to open-air concerts in Kolkata, from heritage Bengali bazaar art to cheap matchbox l…
Archives and Afterlives of Nautch Dancers in India
Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance
Descolonizando a história da dança
Dimensions and Dynamics of Sharing Dance in India
Visuality, Sonicity and Corporeality in Installation Art
This conversation paper examines the visual, sonic and corporeal entanglements that inform the work of the Vietnamese-American-Japanese artist Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba. It explores the corporeal and aural qualities that are central to an understanding and sensorial experience of the artist's installations and visual practice. In paying attention to breath, sound and motion in visual art production, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba's works reveal how corporeali…
Decolonising human exhibits
This article focuses on decolonising exhibition practices and colonial archives. It begins with a survey of literature on nineteenth-century colonial exhibitions and world’s fairs as a cultural practice and the complicity of academic disciplines such as anthropology and ethnology in promoting violent forms of pedagogy. Next, the article examines the failed Liberty’s 1885 exhibition in London, specifically analyzing the nautch dancers whose moving…
Decolonising dance history
This chapter discusses dance in the late colonial and postcolonial periods, a window of time which offers a glimpse into complex processes of cultural identity formation during a volatile political period in India's history. Since the 1980s, historical writings on Indian dance have been particularly suspicious of a grand nationalist discourse. The chapter considers three main emergent themes. First and foremost is interdisciplinarity in dance his…
Chorégraphier le genre au Bengale colonial. Le travail de danse de Rabindranath Tagore et Pratima Devi
Cet article s'intéresse aux gestes performatifs et aux pas de danse à travers lesquels les femmes colonisées de la bourgeoisie négocièrent les tensions profondes entre le patriarcat indien et la domination coloniale au Bengale (en Inde) à la fin du xixe et au début du xxe siècle. La première partie examine la contribution du Prix Nobel de poésie, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), au développement de la danse au Bengale et replace sa pratique de da…
Dancing Otherness
Uday Shankar's career as a dancer and choreographer has been under frequent inspection by dance historians and scholars in both the South Asian and Euro-American worlds. To date, some articles, books, and biographies have documented various aspects Shankar's life, which provide factual details about his performance career (Banerji 1982; Khokar 1983; Mukhopadhyay 2004; Singha and Massey 1967). While these biographies serve as an important source i…
Warrior, Untouchable, Courtesan
This article analyses the intimate links between dance and the processes of national and postcolonial identity formation in India, particularly in Bengal, in the twentieth century. It examines alternative, non-classical artistic experiments in the realm of theatre dance spawned by twentieth century cultural nationalism in India, focusing on dancing bodies that actively engaged with, and wrote different meanings for, the socio-political space they…
Science, Falsification and Ideology
Chorégraphier le genre au Bengale colonial. Le travail de danse de Rabindranath Tagore et Pratima Devi
Cet article s'intéresse aux gestes performatifs et aux pas de danse à travers lesquels les femmes colonisées de la bourgeoisie négocièrent les tensions profondes entre le patriarcat indien et la domination coloniale au Bengale (en Inde) à la fin du xixe et au début du xxe siècle. La première partie examine la contribution du Prix Nobel de poésie, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), au développement de la danse au Bengale et replace sa pratique de da…
Warrior, Untouchable, Courtesan
This article analyses the intimate links between dance and the processes of national and postcolonial identity formation in India, particularly in Bengal, in the twentieth century. It examines alternative, non-classical artistic experiments in the realm of theatre dance spawned by twentieth century cultural nationalism in India, focusing on dancing bodies that actively engaged with, and wrote different meanings for, the socio-political space they…
Science, Falsification and Ideology
Warrior, Untouchable, Courtesan
This article analyses the intimate links between dance and the processes of national and postcolonial identity formation in India, particularly in Bengal, in the twentieth century. It examines alternative, non-classical artistic experiments in the realm of theatre dance spawned by twentieth century cultural nationalism in India, focusing on dancing bodies that actively engaged with, and wrote different meanings for, the socio-political space they…
Dancing Otherness
Uday Shankar's career as a dancer and choreographer has been under frequent inspection by dance historians and scholars in both the South Asian and Euro-American worlds. To date, some articles, books, and biographies have documented various aspects Shankar's life, which provide factual details about his performance career (Banerji 1982; Khokar 1983; Mukhopadhyay 2004; Singha and Massey 1967). While these biographies serve as an important source i…
Decolonising dance history
This chapter discusses dance in the late colonial and postcolonial periods, a window of time which offers a glimpse into complex processes of cultural identity formation during a volatile political period in India's history. Since the 1980s, historical writings on Indian dance have been particularly suspicious of a grand nationalist discourse. The chapter considers three main emergent themes. First and foremost is interdisciplinarity in dance his…
Chorégraphier le genre au Bengale colonial. Le travail de danse de Rabindranath Tagore et Pratima Devi
Cet article s'intéresse aux gestes performatifs et aux pas de danse à travers lesquels les femmes colonisées de la bourgeoisie négocièrent les tensions profondes entre le patriarcat indien et la domination coloniale au Bengale (en Inde) à la fin du xixe et au début du xxe siècle. La première partie examine la contribution du Prix Nobel de poésie, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), au développement de la danse au Bengale et replace sa pratique de da…
Decolonising human exhibits
This article focuses on decolonising exhibition practices and colonial archives. It begins with a survey of literature on nineteenth-century colonial exhibitions and world’s fairs as a cultural practice and the complicity of academic disciplines such as anthropology and ethnology in promoting violent forms of pedagogy. Next, the article examines the failed Liberty’s 1885 exhibition in London, specifically analyzing the nautch dancers whose moving…
Visuality, Sonicity and Corporeality in Installation Art
This conversation paper examines the visual, sonic and corporeal entanglements that inform the work of the Vietnamese-American-Japanese artist Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba. It explores the corporeal and aural qualities that are central to an understanding and sensorial experience of the artist's installations and visual practice. In paying attention to breath, sound and motion in visual art production, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba's works reveal how corporeali…
Dimensions and Dynamics of Sharing Dance in India
Descolonizando a história da dança
The Archives and Afterlives of Nautch Dancers in India
In a time of colonial subjugation, subaltern, illicit and courtesan dancers in India radically disturbed racist, casteist and patriarchal regimes of thought. The criminalized 'nautch' dancer, vilified by both British colonialism and Indian nationalism, appears in this book across multiple locations, materials and timelines: from colonial human exhibits in London to open-air concerts in Kolkata, from heritage Bengali bazaar art to cheap matchbox l…
Archives and Afterlives of Nautch Dancers in India
Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that consolidates novel research and contemporary analytical approaches to critical Indian dance studies from across the world. It explores new frontiers of scholarship suggested by its contributing authors and calls attention to urgent agendas that are central to the current field of Indian dance studies. The volume highlights key social and political dimensions of Indian dance a…
Art (8 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (8 works) · Dance (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works)