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Anna Morcom's book shows that alongside the development of a more sanitized, legitimized sphere of dance for elite classes and casts in 20th-century India, there was a complementary delegitimized sphere in which transsexual and female dancers moved.

Dr. Susan Seizer
Indiana University Bloomington

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This page is a summary of: Some Rise as Others Fall: Illegitimacy in Indian Dance, TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly, January 2015, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/23289252-2867830.
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