Prostitution in northern Central India: an ethnographical study of Bedia community

Bedia community has been engaged in singing and dancing as ‘rai’ folk artists during the rule of monarchy in central India. It is mentioned in colonial literature that Bedia were a nomadic tribe and often engaged in criminal activities too. After the end of monarchy and change in the laws of the sta...

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Published in:	International journal of anthropology and ethnology 2020-03, Vol.4 (1), p.1-16, Article 2
Main Authors:	Rana, Usha, Sharma, Diwakar, Ghosh, Debarati
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Anthropology Artists Bedia Colonialism Community Consumers Cultural factors Culture Customers Dance Dancing Daughters Dominance Earnings Ethnography Families & family life Fathers Females Folkdance Girls Interpersonal relations Kinship Law Livelihood Madhya Pradesh Monarchy Nomads Professional practice Prostitution Puberty Rules Sex industry Sex workers Singing Social Anthropology Social Sciences Sociocultural factors Stigma Structural Anthropology Victims Villages Women Workers
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