Tanjavur

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The article is about the Bhagavata Mela plays that take place in the village of Saliyamangalam.
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  1. Brihadisvara Legends   Fig. 1: Brihadisvara temple (Image taken by Debhashish Bannerjee)                                 …
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S. Gopalakrishnan: The three great Chola temples in Tanjavur—Brihadisvara, Gangaikondacholapuram and Darasuram—could you elaborate on the roles these three temples played in the fields of music, dance and other art forms of Tanjavur?   Rama Kausalya: I’ll give some introduction first of all.…
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  Sahapedia: Thanjavur has been acclaimed as a cultural capital in the south with Brihadisvara temple as the centre of activity. We would like to know how the Brihadisvara temple and the entire complex worked from a cultural point of view in the history of Tanjavur or even the whole of south…
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Soneji, Davesh. 2012. Devadasis, Memory and modernity in South India. The University of Chicago Press books. Soneji, Davesh. 2012. Bharatanatyam- A reader. Delhi: Oxford university Press.  J.Weidman, Amanda. 2006. Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modernity: The Postcolonial Politics of…
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Lakshmi Viswanathan
A QUARTET WHO MADE HISTORY 'Sangeetham' always denoted both music and dance. The two grew in tandem enriching each other. A king’s command became the genesis of a rejuvenated art form. Tulaja II (1763 -1787) a king of the Maratha dynasty of Tanjavur, invited Mahadeva Annavi a dance expert from…
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Nandini Ramani
                                   Tanjavur Quartet- A brief introduction     Bharatanatyam that existed in the…
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