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‘Hell is in her eyes; in her breast is a vast ocean of poison. Round her comely waist dwells the furies of hell, her hands are brandishing unseen daggers ever ready to strike unwary or willful victims. Her blandishments are India’s ruin. Alas! Her smile is India’s death’ (Keshab Chandra Sen, Social reformer, Bengal).   This was the popular narrative that dominated the social reform movement in the early decades of 20th Century India—a narrative that sought to demonize all performing women as immoral entities and prostitutes. This culminated in the ‘Anti-Nautch’ campaign that banished these women forever from the world of art and threw them, literally, into the bins of history. Performing arts were ‘resurrected’, sanitized and made safe for the middle classes. Bharatanatyam and Kathak sprung from the ashes of the Devadasis’ Sadir and the Tawaif’s Nautch, while Hindustani and Carnatic music were cleansed of their ‘erotic’ and immoral content.   In this shrill narrative, an important milestone in the history of Indian classical music has gone unnoticed and obliterated from national consciousness. When recording technology came calling in 1902, it was women largely belonging to this courtesan community that embraced it readily. The catalogues of the Gramophone Company, which came to India to record ‘native’ voices, clearly indicate close to 400-500 women from across the country who undoubtedly became the pioneers in recording. Their male counterparts shied away citing superstitious beliefs. Some were wary of sharing the secrets of their art by selling it cheap. The manner in which these women negotiated their engagement with the foreign companies and got their act together showed their shrewd business skills in addition to their proficiency in the medium of music to be able to compress it all in a 3 minute gramophone disc. Indian music would not have taken a giant leap fo

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