The devadasi system became popular custom in South India. It means a woman who performed the service to the Gods in the temple. In sangam literature, the dancing woman and prostitutes are frequently mentioned. Sethu Lekshmi Bai, the Queen Regent of Travancore abolished the system in1930
This paper examines the complex identities held by devadasis and the social and political circumstan...
The Madras Anti-Devadasi Act was passed in 1947 with the primary objective of liberating women from ...
The Panchayati Raj system is considered to be the base pillar of Indian democracy from the point of ...
The history of the devadasi system was very ancient. It was a universal phenomenon in the olden days...
The devadasi system is a Hindu religious practice that offers young girls marriage to deities. As se...
The tradition of 'Devadasi' was related to the magnificent temples of South India built during the k...
Caste is an ‘integral component’ of Indian society. Almost all the social groups in Indian sub...
The religiously sanctioned Devadasi system in India exemplifies intersectional oppression of gender,...
Religions are not just systems of belief; they are also organizations, or parts of organizations. Th...
Women in ancient India were held in high esteem. The position of a woman in the Vedas and the Upanis...
The origin of Bharatanatyam is embedded in the caste system. BR Ambedkar notes caste being a system ...
In Travancore, in southwestern India, women suffered greatly during the reign of the kings. The low...
Temple prostitution has been a common phenomenon across varied ancient civilizations across the glob...
The ‘devadasi’ system has been the object of several studies and is quite controversial. Some author...
These are just some of the words used to define devadasis in South India over the last century. Rece...
This paper examines the complex identities held by devadasis and the social and political circumstan...
The Madras Anti-Devadasi Act was passed in 1947 with the primary objective of liberating women from ...
The Panchayati Raj system is considered to be the base pillar of Indian democracy from the point of ...
The history of the devadasi system was very ancient. It was a universal phenomenon in the olden days...
The devadasi system is a Hindu religious practice that offers young girls marriage to deities. As se...
The tradition of 'Devadasi' was related to the magnificent temples of South India built during the k...
Caste is an ‘integral component’ of Indian society. Almost all the social groups in Indian sub...
The religiously sanctioned Devadasi system in India exemplifies intersectional oppression of gender,...
Religions are not just systems of belief; they are also organizations, or parts of organizations. Th...
Women in ancient India were held in high esteem. The position of a woman in the Vedas and the Upanis...
The origin of Bharatanatyam is embedded in the caste system. BR Ambedkar notes caste being a system ...
In Travancore, in southwestern India, women suffered greatly during the reign of the kings. The low...
Temple prostitution has been a common phenomenon across varied ancient civilizations across the glob...
The ‘devadasi’ system has been the object of several studies and is quite controversial. Some author...
These are just some of the words used to define devadasis in South India over the last century. Rece...
This paper examines the complex identities held by devadasis and the social and political circumstan...
The Madras Anti-Devadasi Act was passed in 1947 with the primary objective of liberating women from ...
The Panchayati Raj system is considered to be the base pillar of Indian democracy from the point of ...
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