Indeed, the closest modern word for a musical performance in South India is “Kachcheri” which is derived from an Urdu and Hindi word meaning “court,” signifying the patronage of musicians in the king’s court. Kanniks’ creations, therefore, forge a new path for Indian music. “Here’...
Furthermore, ancient Greeks and Romans called the plant indicum, meaning a product of India, thus indicating the import of indigo pigment by the Graeco-Roman world (Buchanan 2003; Balfour-Paul 2016). No other dye plant has had such a worldwide success as “the king of dyes”. The ...