Shilpa Menon provides the complex history of female impersonation and gendered performances in South Asia, and its relevance to contemporary issues of marginalization of minorities.
Read MoreEpisode 9 | Manasollasa, A Twelfth-Century Chalukyan Encyclopedia on Pleasure
A discussion of the 12th century treatise on royalty, court life and pleasure—Manasollasa—written by King Someshwara III, ruler of the Western Chalukyan empire.
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