Devadasi - Revision history

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‎2019, prevalence of the practice

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‎Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka

Jyoti: /* Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka */

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‎Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka

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‎2015: tradition ends in Puri

Pdewan at 01:05, 22 November 2016

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‎Non-religious dance

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 Apart from children, even cattle are offered to Mathamma, if the calves are cured of their illness. “This is done by people from other castes too,” Mr. Venkatesan says.
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 [https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/36-years-after-law-girls-still-forced-into-devadasi-custom/article25995956.ece  Prakash Kamat, January 15, 2019: ''The Hindu'']

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-[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/devadasi-an-exploitative-ritual-that-refuses-to-die/article19821606.ece  Umashanker Kalivikodi, Girls ‘offered’ to the goddess are deemed ‘public property’, October 8, 2017: The Hindu]
+[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/devadasi-an-exploitative-ritual-that-refuses-to-die/article19821606.ece  Umashanker Kalivikodi, Girls ‘offered’ to the goddess are deemed ‘public property’, October 8, 2017: ''The Hindu'']
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 Apart from children, even cattle are offered to Mathamma, if the calves are cured of their illness. “This is done by people from other castes too,” Mr. Venkatesan says.
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-[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/devadasi-an-exploitative-ritual-that-refuses-to-die/article19821606.ece  Girls ‘offered’ to the goddess are deemed ‘public property’, October 8, 2017: The Hindu]
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 The system is called ‘Basivi’ in Kurnool and Anantapur districts, ‘Saani’ in Krishna, East and West Godavari districts, and ‘Parvathi’ in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts. Women are unable to leave the exploitative system due to social pressures.
-A. Mathamma, 40, of KVB Puram mandal said though she wanted to leave her hamlet and settle at Srikalahasti as a domestic help, the village youth would not allow her to do so. Nor would they let her stay with her ‘owner’, making her retreat to her home.
+A. Mathamma of KVB Puram mandal said though she wanted to leave her hamlet and settle at Srikalahasti as a domestic help, the village youth would not allow her to do so. Nor would they let her stay with her ‘owner’, making her retreat to her home.
 A daily wager, Mathaiah, father of a 14-year-old Mathamma at M.R. Palli in Tirupati, said his daughter has had a heart condition since birth.

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 (6) If a matron is chaste, she may live in the dancing-girl’s street,
 The insigne of courtesans, according to the Conjeeveram records, is a Cupid, that of a Christian, a curry-comb.
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 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com//Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Puris-last-practising-devadasi-dies-at-92-20032015019005 ''The Times of India'']
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 Temple Sources said more than 50 devadasis used to be attached with the temple in the past. The decline of the devadasi -or Maharis, as they are known in Odisha -tradition is believed to have started in 1955, with the state government taking over the administration from the royal family .
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 (From ''People of India/ National Series Volume VIII.'' Readers who wish to share additional information/ photographs may please send them as messages to the Facebook community, [http://www.facebook.com/Indpaedia Indpaedia.com]. All information used will be gratefully acknowledged in your name.)

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	Temple Sources said more than 50 devadasis used to be attached with the temple in the past. The decline of the devadasi -or Maharis, as they are known in Odisha -tradition is believed to have started in 1955, with the state government taking over the administration from the royal family .		Temple Sources said more than 50 devadasis used to be attached with the temple in the past. The decline of the devadasi -or Maharis, as they are known in Odisha -tradition is believed to have started in 1955, with the state government taking over the administration from the royal family .
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		+	(From ''People of India/ National Series Volume VIII.'' Readers who wish to share additional information/ photographs may please send them as messages to the Facebook community, [http://www.facebook.com/Indpaedia Indpaedia.com]. All information used will be gratefully acknowledged in your name.)
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		+	Subgroups: Idangai (left hand) [E. Thurston]
		+	Titles: Mudali, Pillai [E. Thurston]

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 Of Dēva-dāsis at the Court of Tippoo Sultan, the following account was published in 1801. “Comme Souverain d’une partie du Visapour, Tippoo-Saïb  jouissoit de la facilité d’avoir parmi ses bayadères celles qui étoient les plus renommées par leurs talens, leurs graces, leur beauté, etc. Ces bayadères sont des danseuses supérieures dans leur genre; tout danse et tout joue en même-tems chez elles; leur tête, leurs yeux, leurs bras, leurs pieds, tout leur corps, semblent ne se mouvoir que from enchanter; elles sont d’une incroyable légèreté, et ont le jarret aussi fort que souple; leur taille est des plus sveltes et des plus élégantes, et elles n’ont pas un mouvement qui ne soit une grace. La plus âgée de ces femmes n’avoit pas plus de seize à dix-sept ans. Aussi tot qu’elles atteignoient cet âge, on les réformoit, et alors elles alloient courir les provinces, on s’attachoient à des pagodes, dans lesqueles elles étoient entretenues, et ou leurs charmes étoient un des meilleurs revenus des brames.”
 General Burton narrates  how a civilian of the old school built a house at Bhavāni, and established a '''corps de ballet,''' i.e., a set of nautch girls, whose accomplishments actually extended to singing God save the King, and this was kept up by their descendants, so that, when he visited the place in 1852, he was “greeted by the whole party, bedizened in all their finery, and squalling the national anthem as if they understood it, which they did not.” With this may be contrasted a circular from a modern European official, which states that “during my jamabandy (land revenue settlement) tour, people have sometimes been kind enough to arrange singing or dancing parties, and, as it would have been discourteous to decline to attend what had cost money to arrange, I have accepted the compliment in the spirit in which it was offered. I should, however, be glad if you would  let it be generally known that I am entirely in accord with what is known as the anti-nautch movement in regard to such performances.”
 It was unanimously decided, in 1905, by the Executive Committee of the Prince and Princess of Wales’ reception fund, that there should be no performance by nautch girls at the entertainment to be given to Their Royal Highnesses at Madras.
 ==Customs==
 In a note on Basavis, the Collector of the Bellary district writes that “it is usual among Hindus to dedicate a bull for public use on the death of a member of their family. These are the breeding bulls of the village flock. Similarly, cows are dedicated, and are called Basavis. No stigma attaches to Basavis or their children, and they are received on terms of equality by other members of their caste. The origin of the institution, it has been suggested, may probably be traced to the time when the Bōyas, and other castes which dedicate Basavis, were soldiers, and the Basavis acted as camp-followers and nurses of the wounded in battle.

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	(6) If a matron is chaste, she may live in the dancing-girl’s street,		(6) If a matron is chaste, she may live in the dancing-girl’s street,
	The insigne of courtesans, according to the Conjeeveram records, is a Cupid, that of a Christian, a curry-comb.		The insigne of courtesans, according to the Conjeeveram records, is a Cupid, that of a Christian, a curry-comb.
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		+	=2015: tradition ends in Puri=
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com//Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Puris-last-practising-devadasi-dies-at-92-20032015019005 ''The Times of India'']
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		+	''' Puri's last practising devadasi dies at 92 '''
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		+	A more than 800-year-old tradition came to an end with the death of Sashimani Devi, 92, the last practising devadasi of the 12th century Jagannath Temple in Puri.
		+	Sashimani, considered the `human wife' of Lord Jagannath and the lone female servitor of the temple, had been unwell for the past few months. She died at the home of her adopted son Somanath Panda, a temple servitor, at Dolamandap Sahi near the temple. Sashimani was cremated at Swargadwar.
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		+	“Her condition deteriorated later. Despite efforts by doctors, she could not be saved,“ said Rupashree Mohapatra, her adopted daughter. “With her death, the devadasi tradition has ended. What pained us the most is that she failed to survive till Nabakalebara. It was her last wish to watch the Lord's Nabakalebara festival,“ Mohapatra said.
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		+	Several ministers, Jagannath Temple's chief administrator Suresh Mohapatra and Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences founder Achyuta Samanta mourned Sashimani's death. The temple administration, culture department, the Puri royal palace and KIIT had been providing financial assistance for her treatment. Sashimani was adopted as a devadasi more than 68 years ago by her `mother' Suryamani. Her duties included dancing before the Lord during Chandan Yatra, Nanda Utsav and Jhulan Yatra and singing the Geeta Govinda.
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		+	“She stopped service around six or seven years ago. Though another devadasi, identified as Parasumani Devi, is still alive, she discontinued her service long ago,“ said Jagannath Temple's spokesperson Laxmidhar Pujapanda.
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		+	Temple Sources said more than 50 devadasis used to be attached with the temple in the past. The decline of the devadasi -or Maharis, as they are known in Odisha -tradition is believed to have started in 1955, with the state government taking over the administration from the royal family .

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 —In old Hindu works, seven classes of Dāsis are mentioned, viz.,