TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mandakranta Bose
TI  - Speaking of dance: the Indian critique 
SN  - 8124601720
U1  - 793.31954 M3124 S 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - D.K. Printworld
KW  - India
KW  - Dance
N1  - Indian classical dance is a "high art". In ancient India, it was even venerated as a sacted act. Evern since Bharata wrote his seminal Natyasastra, it has been one of the central elements of scholarly discourse, generating a whole host of learned treatises. Mandakranta Bose here takes a close look at this vast Sanskritic textual corpus attempting not only to reconstruct India's two millennia-long dance tradition, but also to dispel the historical and aesthetic misconceptions woven arount it.
ER  -