Archiving Interruption as Intervention

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Notes

1 ‘[A] museum that uses art and cultural practices to investigate conflict’ https:// bit.ly/3rYZtm6

2 https://bit.ly/33qI8c9

3 Classicization in service of Indian cultural nationalism during the twentieth-century revivalist project disenfranchised highly skilled courtesan (tawaifs) performers, effaced Muslim influences and archived Hindu influences to construct Kathak as an Indian classical dance form. For a historiographical understanding of the politics of Indian cultural nationalism constructing Kathak’s classicism, see Margaret E. Walker’s India’s Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective (2014).

4 Considering other people as objects and subjecting them to a controlling gaze. For more, see Mulvey (1975).