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Journal articles on the topic "Devadasi"

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Jain, Rashmi. "Rebellion against the cult of Devadasi through Breaking Free: A Novel by Vaasanthi." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION 16, no. 1 (2024): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.48047/intjecse/v16i1.14.

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Breaking Free: A Novel by Vaasanthi was translated from Tamil into English by N. Kalyan Raman. Vaasanthi has exposed the turbulent world of devadasis and the complexity of their lives. The stigma of being a devadasi or belonging to devadasi clan leaves an everlasting impact on the family which makes their life difficult and unbearable to live. Chandra Talpade Mohanty opined that women are the first and foremost victim of any kind of violence and suppression and this has been aptly represented in the novel. The double marginalization of women through gender and caste has been highlighted. The s
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Zeba, Hasan. "Devadasi Tradition and Artist Ratnabali Kant's Reaction on the Orthodox Practice through Dance Theater Performance." RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary 4, no. 6 (2019): 18–23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3247199.

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The tradition of 'Devadasi' was related to the magnificent temples of South India built during the kingdom of Pallava, Chola and Pandya. According to historical and socio-religious records 'Devadasi' was recognized as a learned and talented woman and spiritual devotee to the deities of temples. They were trained in Indian classical dances like Bharatanatyam and Odissi. During this time every temple was reverberated with the sound of music and this profession attributed with high reputation. Till the eleventh century these religious rituals continued under the patronization of K
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Dr., M. Velmurugan. "SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF DEVADASIS UNDER THE CHOLAS." International Journal of Applied and Advanced Scientific Research 2, no. 2 (2017): 343–49. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1133936.

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The history of the <em>devadasi </em>system was very ancient. It was a universal phenomenon in the olden days. It was practiced all over the world in one form or the other, with certain variations. Its origin could be attributed to the fertility cult, which was very dominant in the ancient world. The <em>devadasi </em>system was widely prevalent in ancient India. It is not clear when the system originated in Tamilnadu. However, adequate materials are not available to establish the fact that the system was it vogue in Tamilnadu before the Sangam Age. The life of a <em>devadasi </em>was not an e
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Binish, Avani. "Containment and control of Bahujan women's bodies The story of Bharatanatyam." Your Voice Magazine 2, no. 1 (2023): 4–5. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8139812.

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The origin of Bharatanatyam is embedded in the caste system. BR Ambedkar notes caste being a system of graded inequalities rooted in the concept of purity and pollution8. The Devadasi system as an institution can only be addressed with the acknowledgement of the socio-economic position of the women who were dedicated to the temple as Devadasis and the social norms that govern them.
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Neha Rohilla and Rekha Rani. "Devadasi and Violence in Sisir Das’ <i>A Bride for Jagannatha</i> and Maya Goray’s <i>Devadasi</i>." Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 18, no. 1 (2024): 18–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v18i1.3209.

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Devadasi, a socio-cultural-religious system in India, involved ritualistic dedication of young girls to temples. Violent, exploitative, and subjugating, it was a tool of gender discrimination. Though this patriarchal tradition bestowed upon devadasi woman a notional status of a deity, in reality, it ended up objectifying them. Devadasi thus evolved as a double-edged oppressive, a culturally sanctioned power and economic practice. The present paper attempts to explore various nuances of direct and structural violence ranging from physical violence, sexual assault, psychological trauma, societal
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Sriharan, Sitharthan. "Counter-Hegemonic Visions of Self-Respect in a Novel: Ramamirthammal’s Challenge to Indian Nationalism." ANTYAJAA: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change 5, no. 2 (2020): 119–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/24556327211026766.

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Periyar’s Self-Respect Movement challenged the ideological hegemony of the Indian Independence struggle by demanding that equality between sexes and eradicating caste be put on an equal footing with national liberation. The author analyses a chapter in a novel written by Muvalur Ramamirthammal, a reformer from a devadasi community, who joined the Self-Respect Movement and became an ardent abolitionist of the devadasi system. In a dialogue between an ex-devadasi, who is represented as a Self-Respect activist, and a Brahmin man with Indian nationalist views, the former devadasi highlights the Se
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Mehta, Purvi. "Dalit Feminism in Tokyo: Analogy and Affiliation in Transnational Dalit Activism." Feminist Review 121, no. 1 (2019): 24–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0141778918818318.

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This article discusses different conceptions and translations of the devadasi system in transnational Dalit feminist activism. I focus specifically on activist participation at the 1994 Asia Tribunal on Women’s Human Rights in Tokyo, Japan and the construction of an analogy between the experiences and struggles of devadasis and that of ‘military comfort women’, i.e. women from Japan’s former colonies who were abducted and raped by the Japanese military during World War II. I argue that strategic claims of commonality are part of the process of making specific, local practices legible to a glob
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Joseph, Diptty, and Bino Thomas. "Life Skills Development Training for Adolescent Girls at Risk-Rescued Devadasi Girls in Karnataka." Artha - Journal of Social Sciences 16, no. 1 (2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.12724/ajss.40.1.

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The positive evidences of life skills education among the young people in difficult circumstances have encouraged the researchers in imparting life skills education to the rescued devadasi adolescent girls in North Karnataka. The study was conducted in pre experimental research design without a control group of rescued devadasi girls by understanding their needs and gaps in life skills. The effectiveness of the programme was assessed using a standardized tool. 25 adolescent girls who were rescued from the devadasi system participated in the study. These girls were daughters’ of active devadasi
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Bapat, Jyotsna. "Devadasi Cult: A Sociobiological Mortality." Journal of Human Ecology 7, no. 1 (1996): 9–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09709274.1996.11907184.

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Ganesh, Swarnamalya. "Writings as Operations of Disenfranchisement, Investigating Manuscripts, and Choreographer's Notes from the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries: Advantages and Problems in Reconstructing from the Papers." Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings 2015 (2015): 52–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cor.2015.11.

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Bharatanatyam has manifold systems of writing/documentation. They are in the form of sculptures, paintings, inscriptions, and treatises. They are also in the form of personal notes by dance masters (Nattuvanars), notated descriptions by scholars, by wealthy merchants, travellers, and the court and temple dancers (Devadasis) themselves.The female mind, body, and voice were used to embody the choreographies envisioned by the male Nattuvanars. But the qualitative fulcrum of this dance remained in extempore exposition. Every repertoire had a pedagogy that was fundamentally dynamic in its transfer
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Devadasi"

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Ask, Julia. "“No Rules Apply to Another Man’s Wife” : Social Reforms of the Devadasi System in South India." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Religionshistoria, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-111179.

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Ravikumar, Meghana. "The Dancer vs. The Adjudicator: Devadasi Resistance in the 19th-Century Court." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/987.

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This thesis investigates the dynamics between devadasi women and judges in the Anglo-Indian court in the Madras Presidency of 19th-century colonial India. The thesis focuses on how the devadasis navigated the colonial legal system and the strategies they utilized as well as the role of the judges' preconceived notions and prejudice in determining the decisions they made.
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Burns, Emily K. "Selling Sex To Survive: Prostitution, Trafficking And Agency Within The Indian Sex Industry." Ohio University Art and Sciences Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1391174022.

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Tarachand, K. C. "Dēvadāsi custom : rural social structure and flesh markets /." New Delhi : Reliance publ. house, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36990661g.

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Epp, Linda Joy. "Violating the sacred?, the social reform of devadasis among dalits in Karnataka, India." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ27290.pdf.

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Silva, Jorge Lúzio Matos. "As bailadeiras Devadasis, dança e colonialidade na Índia portuguesa - século XVIII: no corpo iconografado uma categoria histórica." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18985.

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Fredrick, Robin Devadoss Victor Paul Raj [Verfasser]. "Analysis and Visual Summarization of Molecular Dynamics Simulation / Victor Paul Raj Fredrick Robin Devadoss." Konstanz : Bibliothek der Universität Konstanz, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1080129499/34.

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Parker, Eve Rebecca. "Theologising with the sacred 'prostitutes' of South India : towards an indecent Dalit theology." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9910.

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This thesis theologises with the contemporary devadāsīs of South India, focusing in particular on the Dalit girls who from childhood have been dedicated to the goddess Mathamma and used as village sex workers. Firstly, chapters one and two situate the context for theologising by outlining the discriminatory practice of caste and the place of the Dalits, noting in particular the plight of Dalit women. From here it explores the socioreligious identities of the contemporary devadāsīs that have been transformed and degraded as a result of a multitude of hegemonies, to the extent that the existenti
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Rührmair, Ulrich [Verfasser], Jean-Pierre [Akademischer Betreuer] Seifert, Srinivas [Gutachter] Devadas, Marten van [Gutachter] Dijk, and Marc [Gutachter] Fischlin. "On the formal foundations of PUFs and related primitives / Ulrich Rührmair ; Gutachter: Srinivas Devadas, Marten van Dijk, Marc Fischlin ; Akademischer Betreuer: Jean-Pierre Seifert." Berlin : Universitätsbibliothek, Technische Universität Berlin, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1137191066/34.

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Leucci, Tiziana. "Du Dâsî Âttam au Bharata Nâtyam : ethnohistoire d'une tradition chorégraphiqe et de sa moralisation & nationalisation dans l'Inde coloniale et post-coloniale." Paris, EHESS, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009EHES0382.

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La thèse cherche à expliquer la transformation de la "danse des servantes [des dieux]" (Dâsî Âttam) en "danse de Bharata" (Bharata Nâtyam), dite "classique" et "nationale" en Inde. Le travail donne d'abord la parole à d'anciens maîtres de danse et danseuses de la tradition disparue, puis retrace l'histoire de la fascination occidentale pour les danseuses de temple indiennes du XIIIème au début du XXème siècle. Ces artistes étant aussi courtisanes, la fascination se doublait de jugements moraux, qui ont été intégrés par les Indiens occidentalisés. Après de longs débats légaux, ces réformistes o
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Books on the topic "Devadasi"

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K, Sadasivan. Devadasi system in medieval Tamil Nadu. CBH Publications, 1993.

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Kersenboom-Story, Saskia C. Nityasumaṅgalī: Devadasi tradition in South India. Motilal Banarsidass, 1987.

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Meduri, Avanthi. Nation, woman, representation: The sutured history of the devadasi and her dance. New York University, 1996.

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Prasad, A. K. Devadasi system in ancient India: A study of temple dancing girls of South India. H.K. Publishers and Distributors, 1990.

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Caṭṭopādhyāya, Śaratcandra. Devadāsa. 2nd ed. Mihir Prakāśana, 1989.

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Caṭṭopādhyāya, Śaratcandra. Devadāsa. Bhāratībhāshā Prakāśana, 1985.

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Kharāta, Śaṅkararāva Rāmacandra. Mājhā kāya dosha?: Devadāsīñcyā kathā. Pratimā Prakāśana, 1996.

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Sanyal, Narayan. Sutanukā. Niu Beṅgala Presa, 1998.

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Gavasa, Rājana. Cauṇdakã. 3-тє вид. Mehatā Pabaliśiṅga Hāusa, 2006.

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Muiʺ, ʼOṅʻ. Buddha nhaṅʻʹ Devadatʻ. Tuiṅʻʺ Laṅʻʺ Cā pe, 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "Devadasi"

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Mukherjee, Sudeshna, and Priyanka Dwivedi. "Empowerment and rehabilitation of devadasi." In Social Welfare Policies and Programmes in South Asia. Routledge India, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429323041-8.

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Bose, Paromita. "“Devadasi” Reform in Colonial South India: The Case of Radhika Santwanam." In Transcultural Negotiations of Gender. Springer India, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2437-2_11.

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Sharma, P. Muralidhar. "On the Margins of Respectability: The Disempowered Devadasi in Muvalur Ramamirthammal’s Web of Deceit." In Marginal Narratives and the Question of Human Rights in Asian Pacific Literature. Springer Nature Singapore, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-4544-9_15.

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Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique. "Devadāsī." In Hinduism and Tribal Religions. Springer Netherlands, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1188-1_1126.

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Budin, Stephanie Lynn. "Devadāsī." In Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429243523-6.

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Waha, Kristen Bergman. "Tamil “Translation,” French Orientalism, and Indian Dramatic Traditions in Louis Jacolliot’s La Devadassi (1868)." In Reading the Past Across Space and Time. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55885-5_12.

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Sattler, Sandra. "Is Controlled Śakti to the Bharatanāṭyam Practitioner as Uncontrolled Śakti Is to the Devadāsī?" In The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics. Routledge India, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032638478-52.

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Arvind, Lavanya Shanbhogue. "Women’s Labour, Self-help Groups and Microfinance in a Neo-liberal World: An Interrogation of the Role of Self-help Groups in the Rehabilitation of Former Devadasis in Belgaum District of Karnataka." In Gendered Inequalities in Paid and Unpaid Work of Women in India. Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9974-0_16.

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Sharma, Manu. "Divine shadows: Indian Devadasis between religious beliefs and sexual exploitation." In Women and Religion. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447336358.003.0005.

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This chapter explores the origin and growth of the Devadasi system and highlights the present status of Devadasis in Indian society. The term Devadasi is a Sanskrit word, which literally translates to ‘female slave of God’. In contemporary times, for various sociohistorical reasons, the Devadasi tradition appears to have lost its status and is equated synonymously with prostitution and slavery in India. The chapter questions the importance of the religious factor in explaining the logic of the Devadasis' institution. Conversely, the element of caste and socioeconomic background are two fundame
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Anand, Amit. "Temple Prostitution in India." In Economic and Societal Impact of Organized Crime. IGI Global, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-0327-6.ch004.

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The practice of ‘marrying' young girls of lower castes to gods and goddesses is one of the oldest cultural practices in India. This practice is called the devadasi system in which minor girls belonging to the Scheduled Castes are sexually exploited by temple priests and other high caste men in the name of religion. The term ‘devadasi' is a Sanskrit word which means ‘female slave of God.' The devadasi system is also seen as religious sanctioned prostitution in India. Note that, despite the practice being abolished by various state legislations in India, there are approximately more than 48,000
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Conference papers on the topic "Devadasi"

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mariana, Lina, and M. S. "Marketing Strategy of Traditional Cake of Mandar (Kue Kasippi) at CV Devadata 59 Polewali Mandar." In Proceedings of the First Multidiscipline International Conference, MIC 2021, October 30 2021, Jakarta, Indonesia. EAI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.30-10-2021.2315857.

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Reports on the topic "Devadasi"

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Kothari, Jayna, I. R. Jayalakshmi, Rohit Sharma, and Adhirai S. Intersections of Caste and Gender: Implementation of Devadasi Prohibition Laws. Centre for Law and Policy Research, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.54999/hhej4927.

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CLPR’s policy brief on the Devadasi practice in States like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Maharashtra investigates the prevalence of the Devadasi system and reviews the implementation of legislation prohibiting the practice. The policy brief pays close attention to the intersectional discrimination faced by Devadasi women due to their caste, class, and gender and suggests a range of recommendations from statutory amendments to regular empirical studies and training programs to strengthen the working of the legislation.
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