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	Publisher: Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd.
	Author: Maya Goray
	Language: English
	Pages: 248
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	8.50 X 5.50 inch
	Weight 210 gm
	Edition: 2021
	ISBN: 9789386473981
	NAZ761

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About the Book Devadasi's colorful characters teeter on fault lines of race, sex, gender, religion and history. Devaki's passionate personal story underpins wider concerns. Against the backdrop of the community's historical role in preserving Bharatanatyam, does Devaki - a dancer who performs sexual services besides temple duties - fined emotional outlet, individual expression or empowerment?

Set in the Madras Presidency towards the end of the Victorian era, the narrative's social arc contrasts Raj life and desi existence. An English civil servant, on official duty in a muffasil town near Devaki's village, finds her a convenient time-pass. Love and relationships take many forms: Devaki's adoration of Albert and her revulsion for her patron; the unusual emotional bond with her sexually indeterminate brother; devotion to the deity and her battle with herself weave a chiaroscuro of joys and sorrows that make up this 'dedicated' young woman's life.

The storyteller's Gen Z audience raises perennial societal issues - sex, religion, caste, rural conditions - which frame how 'choice' governed and continues to govern lives in India.

About the Author Maya Goray is the pen name of a multifaceted author. On graduating from Delhi University with a BA in English Honors, she has been writing for several newspapers and journals, focusing on the arts. An avid reader and traveler, she is currently writing a children's play. Devadasi was largely inspired by her interest in Raj history. Having learned Odissi dance, her interest extends to Bharathnatyam. Her other interests are bird-watching and the opera. Maya is married, with two children and makes her home in India.

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