New Connections: Telugu film cultures and the transnational Indian classical dancer

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Notes

1 Putcha defines Bhogam women as performing women who sang and danced in public in feudal and colonial patronage systems. Today they are understood as belonging to a marginalized caste community.

2 Hereditary dancers come from communities where dance was a hereditary profession. They were usually from marginalized caste locations. Over the twentieth century they were pushed out of their own dance practice as these dance forms underwent a process of classicization, and began to be known as ‘classical’ dances.