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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/BRAJ000054/00001
Notes
- General Note:
- 1 colour slide
- General Note:
- "Between January 1976 and March 1978 over 4,500 photographs were taken and subsequently classified at the Vrindaban Research Institute using a card-index system."
- General Note:
- LCNAF (name authority) : Devi, Ritha : URI http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002032111.html
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- VIAF (name authority) : Devi, Ritha : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/24265691/
- General Note:
- New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 25, 2017 (in obituary published Sept. 22: Ritha Devi; b. Rita Mukherjee, Dec. 6, 1924, Assam; her family later moved to Baroda; as her performing career blossomed, a mentor advised her to adopt a stage name before embarking on an international tour; her first name, Rita, sounded too European, he told her, so she added an "h" and made it Ritha; Devi was her grandmother's maiden name; d. Sept. 12, Pune, aged 92; performer and teacher who presented Indian classical dance to American audiences with poetic beauty; specialized in Odissi, a form of dance that originated about 2,000 years ago in the ancient temples of Orissa (now Odisha); lived in New York for 35 years)
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS, University of London
- Rights Management:
- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
- Resource Identifier:
- 21685 ( IAVRI number )
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