With more than gratitude, I want to thank my Guruji, Sri Santhanam, who has not only taught me most of what has been written in this book but has done it with the all-encompassing warmth in the true guru-shishya parampara. Many, many thanks to Gautam Vaghela for the beautiful line drawings and for the constant faith in my ability. Thanks due to Gunjan Singh for her painstaking reading of the manuscript, for her invaluable suggestions. To Uma Swaminathan, for all her help in so many areas that I can't list them out. To Nilima Mansukhani, for using all the cards in her pack to make sure I completed this project. To Vivek Hurry, for all the patient help with everything that had to do with a computer. To Prema, Maya and Sita for their translation efforts and Mohan for his photographic ones. To Shiv Sahai for many things. To Malini, for being there always. To the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Delhi, the Sruti Foundation, Chennai, and Kalakshetra, Chennai, for their generosity in providing and letting me use their archival material. To the staff of the Asiatic Society Library, Mumbai, for their cheerful help in finding all relevant references. To all the dancers, who have assisted with information and their generous permission to use their photographs. And very importantly to my publishers, especially Alka Thakur, Chandana Dutta and Shubhra Dey for their warm and positive reaction to everything important. To so many other people, friends and family, for their support and active encouragement, that I'd need another book to list them out, but they know who they are, and I thank them all.
And many thanks to Nalini Jayavant for her careful typing of the document.
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