Dangerous Outcast Catalogue Kentridge works on the threshold

Kentridge works on the threshold between the visible and the invisible

Strip Tease

Historian Romila Thapar and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak reflect on the challenges posed by essentialism and exclusion whenever cultures attempt to define and assert themselves

in this dissertation can be found a longing to move further towards performance

precariously teetering between the recondite and the illusory

Dangerous Outcast Catalogue Kentridge works on the thresholdDangerous Outcast traces how, from the peripheries of precolonial Bengali rural society, prostitutes came to dominate the centrestage in Calcutta, the capital of British Indiathanks to the emergence of a new clientele brought forth by the colonial order. While examining the policies the British administration implemented to revamp the profession to suit its needs, this volume also analyses the class structure within the prostitute community of the