Indrani Rahman
Indrani Rahman was an Indian classical dancer, of Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, Kathakali and Odissi, which she popularized in the west, and later settled in New York in 1976.
Indrani Rahman was born in Chennai, to Ramalal Balram Bajpai , an Indian nationalist and president of the IndoAmerican League, and Esther Luella Sherman born in Petoskey, Michigan in 1893, , who changed her name to Ragini Devi, once the couple moved to India, in the 1920s, when Ramlal Bajpai, a chemist turned successful importer in US, returned to India and later remained Asst. Editor to the Young India magazine, published by Lala Lajpat Rai after Independence of India, he became the Consulate General of India at New York. Ragini on her part became renowned all over the world for her role in revival of Indian classical dance in the 1930s, especially Kathakali, after her fateful encounter with the great rajadasi, Jetti Tayamma in Karnataka, from whom she started learning Bharata Natyam, and also from Gauri Amma of Chennai.
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