Dangerous Outcast Catalogue in this dissertation can be

in this dissertation can be found a longing to move further towards performance

Kentridge works on the threshold between the visible and the invisible

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Their conversation revolves around the narratives that have shaped the Indian identity—from the Vedic times to the present—and those whose voices and visions for this land remain unheard and unseen

precariously teetering between the recondite and the illusory

Dangerous Outcast Catalogue in this dissertation can beDangerous Outcast traces how, from the peripheries of precolonial Bengali rural society, prostitutes came to dominate the centrestage in Calcutta, the capital of British Indiathanks to the emergence of a new clientele brought forth by the colonial order. While examining the policies the British administration implemented to revamp the profession to suit its needs, this volume also analyses the class structure within the prostitute community of the