Word: rajput
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From their 20-year-repertory, the pair danced the pastoral Tillers of the Soil, the romantic Josephine and Hippolyte. St. Denis soloed her Indian Rajput Nautch, and Shawn whirled through 540 gyrations in his Mevlevi Dervish. At the end, after a Brahms waltz, which showed her still-youthful white body shimmering under turquoise veiling, he carried her off stage, just as he had done many a time long ago. One sentimentalist in the audience whispered: "Maybe they'll go home together." It was sentiment, but not romance, that had brought Ruth St. Denis from California to help Shawn raise...
...Hindu name, she explained, comes from Mira, a Rajput Princess who gave up her position to become a worshipper of Krishna, and Bai a feminine suffix. She is also called Mirabehn, which means Sister Mira...
Bleak and barren Jaipur, a Rajput realm on one of India's high plateaus, rejoiced in frenzied thanksgiving last week at what seemed to superstitious Rajputs a miracle...
...Coomaraswamy will deliver the ninth of his lectures on "Indian Art and Culture" in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock today. Dr. Coomaraswamy, who is Keeper of the Section on Indian Art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will speak particularly of "Rajput and Mughal Painting." The lecture will be illustrated...
...Veda, Uponishads, Vedanta, Yoga; November 21, Buddhism, Jainism; November 26, Vaishnava, Saiva and Sakta Theology; November 23, Epics, Drama, Music and Dancing; December 3, Theory of Art Silpa Sastras, Caste Status of Craftsmen; December 5, Buddhist Sculpture; December 10, Brahmanical Sculpture; December 12, Buddhist and Jaina Painting; December 17, Rajput and Mughal Painting; December 19, Architecture...