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Pages: 295
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-17 - Publisher: Duke University Press
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Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Gyan Books
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Passionate and forbidden love clashes with tradition and caste in a changing India. Kamala Kumari is more than a Gemini Studio starlet: she's a classical dancer
