Dutt, Bishnupriya & Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar <br/><br/>
Engendering performance  Indian women performers in search of an identity 

 - Sage, Los Angeles  2010 
 - xx,305 
<br/><br/>Actresses of the colonial space: English actresses in India (1789-1842) -- Locating a new space and identity: coming of the Indian actresses (1872-1910) -- The people’s actress: a journey to modernity -- Actresses in the jatra space -- Natyasastra: emerging (gender) codes and the woman dancer -- The body and the woman dancer: what she is, or what she is expected to be -- Emergence of the contemporary woman dancer: contribution of Tagore, Shankar, and Ipta -- Tale of the professional woman dancer in folk traditions in India: commodification of dance and the traditional dancing women. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-81-321-0456-8 (HB) 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792.028082 Dut/Mun