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The stone statuette of a male dancer from Harappa and the bronze figurine of dancing girl from Mohenjodaro reveal that the Indus Valley civilization had a well evolved dance culture stretching in all probabilities from its real life to its artefacts. |
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The sultan of Jogjakarta supports the daily performance of a leather puppet show of either Ramayana or Mahabharata in his Palace annexure. He also subsidizes the world's only daily performance of a dance ballet based on Ramayana, performed with the Prambanan towers as its backdrop. The highlight of the extraordinary show is that all the two hundred artistes are Muslims. |
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Achchan Maharaj, Shambhu Maharaj and Lachchhu Maharaj are the doyens of the Lucknow gharana. |
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