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Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor by Priya Srinivasan. 2012. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 238 pp., photographs, glossary, endnotes, references, index. $28.95 paper. - Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South Asia by Davesh Soneji. 2012. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 328 pp., photographs, appendices, notes, references, index. $24.00 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2013

Prarthana Purkayastha
Prarthana Purkayastha*
Affiliation:
Plymouth University, United Kingdom
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , August 2013 , pp. 140 - 142
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2013 

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