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After India achieved Independence from the British in 1947, <em>kuchipudi <\/em>came to be known as a dance style synonymous with the Telugu-speaking state of Andhra Pradesh. <em>Kuchipudi<\/em>\u2019s metonymic status reveals a broader logic of linguistic, geographically grounded identitarianism; indeed, the dance known today as <em>kuchipudi<\/em> is said to hail from a physical place called Kuchipudi, an otherwise nondescript farming village located about fifty kilometres southeast of Vijayawada in central Andhra Pradesh.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the abstract: \u201cIn the twenty-first century, the term \u201ckuchipudi\u201d refers to a style of dance, a South Indian classical genre which, to the untrained eye, is indistinguishable from its better known cousin, bharatanatyam. 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