Abstract The clean and the proper (in the sense of incorporated and incorporable) becomes filthy, the sought-after turns into the banished, fascination into shame. -Julia Kristeva, The Powers of Horror  The history we are sketching is one of boundaries double crossed between India and the West and between periods of the South Asian past. On one level … Continue reading Spear, Jeffrey L., and Avanthi Meduri. “Knowing the Dancer: East Meets West.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 32, no. 2, 2004, pp. 435–448.