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About Pratichi Priyambada
I am a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. I am broadly interested in histories of performance, gender and sexuality and colonial law. My dissertation titled “Slaves,” “Prostitutes” and Patronage: Dancers in Colonial India centres the daily experiences of Indian dancing women in the unfolding of the socio-cultural history of nineteenth-century Bombay Presidency. Instead of treating colonial legal apparatuses as paramount, my dissertation places the everyday negotiations, complicities and defiance of the dancers at the forefront of discussions on slavery, prostitution and intra-imperial performance networks. I am also a trained in Bharatanatyam--one of the reconstructed Indian classical dance forms and have interests in Dance Movement Therapy. While not busy in archival research, I will be often found engaged in random movement-improvisations and choreography.NBN Episodes hosted by Pratichi:
September 30, 2022
Dancing Women
Usha Iyer
Hosted by
Pratichi Priyambada
Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema (Oxford UP, 2020), an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural f…