முள் மேல் விழுந்த துணி கிழியாமல் நாங்கள் எடுத்துக் கொண்டிருக்கிறோம்- கருணாநிதி.

In Andhra Pradesh, devadasi practice is prevalent in Karimnagar, Warangal, Nizamabad, Mahaboobnagar, Kurnool, Hyderabad, Ananthapur, Medak, Adilabad, Chittoor, Rangareddy, Nellore, Nalgonda, and Srikakulam.Kushboo was introduced to South India by the Telugu Movie Kaliyuga Pandavulu opp venkatesh in the direction of K Raghavendra rao. Kushboo Sundar (born Naggarth Khan, on 19 September 1970) is an Indian actress, television hostess and producer. She is also a judge in the Maanada Mayilaada.Khushboo was born in a muslim family and she has three brothers.The Chola empire encouraged the devadasi system . Men and women were dedicated to temple service. They developed the system of music and dance employed during temple festivals.Although the original devadasis were brahmacharinis their entire life, even the contemporary sexual aspects of the rituals that accompany dedication are now considered by many Hindus to be exploitative and not mandatory.From the late medieval period until 1910, the Pottukattu or tali-tying dedication ceremony, was a widely advertised community event requiring the full cooperation of the local religious authorities. It initiates the a young girl into the devadasi profession and is performed in the temple by the priest.The first legal initiative to outlaw the devadasi system dates back to the 1934 Bombay Devadasi Protection Act.Devadasi originally described a Hindu religious practice in which girls were “married” and dedicated to a deity (deva or devi). In addition to taking care of the temple and performing rituals, they learned and practiced Bharatanatyam and other classical Indian arts traditions and enjoyed a high social status.
Following the demise of the great Hindu kingdoms the practice degenerated. Adherents of this movement considered devadasis immoral since they engaged in sex outside of the traditional concept of marriage, and described them as prostitutes.The Hindu revival movement consciously stepped outside the requirements of state electoral politics and western scientific traditions. The movement received strong support from the Theosophical Society of India, whose anti-official stance and strong interest in Indian home rule bound them with the revival of dance and music.

Pioneers like Madam H.P.BLAVATSKY and Colonel H.S.OLCOTT, the founders of the Theosophical movement, had undertaken an extensive tour of South India and propagated the revival of devadasi institutions and the associated art of sadir. They gained support from some sections of the native elite by their public denouncement of western Christian morality and materialism. In 1882, the Theosophical Society of India had set up its headquarters in Adyar, Chennai with the set goal of working towards the restoration of India’s ancient glory in art, science, and philosophy.
The support later given to a revival of sadir as Bharatnatyam by the Theosophical Society was largely due to the efforts ofRUKMINI DEVI ARUNDALE , an eminent theosophist herself. She took up the cause of evolution of sadir and Bharatnatyam, another traditional dance.
The Theosophical Society Adyar provided the necessary funds and organization to back Arundale as the champion for India’s renaissance in the arts, especially Bharatnatyam. The revivalists tried to present the idealistic view of the institution of devadasi. According to their view, it was the model of the ancient temple dancer as pure, sacred, and chaste women, as they were originally.
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