Engendering performance: Indian women performers in search of an identity

Actresses of the colonial space: English actresses in India (1789-1842)

Locating a new space and identity: coming of the Indian actresses (1872-1910)

The people's actress: a journey to modernity

Actresses in the jatra space

Natyasastra: emerging (gender) codes and the woman dancer

The body and the woman dancer: what she is, or what she is expected to be

Emergence of the contemporary woman dancer: contribution of Tagore, Shankar, and Ipta

Tale of the professional woman dancer in folk traditions in India: commodification of dance and the traditional dancing women.