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SUMMARY:Prof Dr Indranil Acharya: Sexual Slavery and Economic Dependency
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DESCRIPTION:Despite being declared an illegal practice\, the Devadasi trad
 ition (of female artists dedicated to the worship and service of a deity o
 r temple) remains active in certain states of India. This lecture proposes
  to explore the inescapable dependency of the Devadasis on the temple prie
 sts\, patrons or the influential members of their own community. It also a
 ttempts to focus on this victimological perspective in the existing legisl
 ations\, policies and literary representations with reference to the Nachn
 i tradition prevalent in three major states of Eastern India.\nNachnis of 
 Purulia district in West Bengal and some other regions of Jharkhand and Od
 isha are traditional Dalit performers\, often compared to Devadasis due to
  their long\, semi-religious devotion to art. Despite being committed rura
 l artistes\, Nachnis are often humiliated as social outcasts\, similar to 
 the historical treatment of courtesans\, although their plight is more mar
 ginalized in the contemporary contexts.
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URL:https://www.ioa.uni-bonn.de/aik/de/nachrichten/prof-dr-indranil-achary
 a-sexual-slavery-and-economic-dependency
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