Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor

Preface

temple university press Philadelphia Priya Srinivasan Sweating Saris Indian Dance as Transnational Labor TemPle UniversiTy Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright © 2012 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 2012 library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data srinivasan, Priya sweating saris : indian dance as transnational labor / Priya srinivasan. p. cm. includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-1-4399-0429-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — isBn 978-1-4399-0430-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isBn 978-1-4399-0431-2 (e-book) 1. Dance—social aspects—india. 2. Dance—social aspects—United states. 3. Women dancers—india—social conditions. 4. Women dancers—United states—social conditions. 5. Bharata natyam—social aspects—United states. 6. Foreign workers, east indian—United states—social conditions. 7. east indians—United states—ethnic identity. i. Title. Gv1693.s75 2011 793.3′1934—dc22 2011016213 The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American national standard for information sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed library materials, Ansi Z39.48-1992 Printed in the United states of America 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 For Ashok and for Rishi and Anjan, feminists in the making May they always remember the past while looking toward the future ...