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oh and so back to interesting readings, when anthy and akio are about to be lynched by their neighbours in service of divinity it is very much like everyday scenes of caste violence in india. its resolution is also via the dedication of a woman to the temple who performs constantly which is very akin to slave dancers or devadasis in service to the temple.

devadasis go through a ceremony at puberty where they are marked as "temple property" held in common by the community by marrying them to god. they acquire some financial and social power that is denied to other women through the gifts of their patrons and were freed from the dangers of being widowed even if they tended to live much shorter lives. upper castes often mandated that dalit families give up atleast one female child to the temple. by the late 19th century devadasi was indistinguishable in colonial writing from prostitute. in many ways the 20th century creation of bharathnatyam was an attempt to make temple dance respectable by excising it of its eroticism and an attempted transformation of the social status of nautch girls from lower caste prostitutes to upper caste artists.

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