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Kishori Amonkar, one of India's extra-ordinary classical singers comes from a Devadasi lineage. |
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Saride Manikyamma, a devadasi who was initiated as a child dancer into the 2 temples of Madana Gopalaswamy and Rukmini in Ballapadu at the age of 11, was unceremoniously left in the lurch by the Devadasi Act of 1947. She struggled for 25 years in poverty till she was discovered along with others, by Nataraj Ramakrishna at a convention in 1972 and brought to his institute to teach abhinaya. |
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When the Madras Devadasi Act took effect, 35,000 temples of Tamilnadu barred all women performers whether they were devadasis or not. |
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Manjusri Chaki - Sircar was born in August 1934 into a Bengali family in Pabna in Bangladesh. After the partition, she and her family moved to Calcutta in 1947. |
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On
the temple walls of Bhubaneshwar, Puri and Konark, one can find dance sculptures
of
Odissi style. |
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