South Asia: Definitions and Clarifications

Reginald Massey has studied South Asia’s culture, religions, music, dance, film, history and politics for over fifty years. His books on Indian dance and music are standard works. He has written for leading international journals and has been a Dancing Times critic for over three decades. Leading reference works such as The Encyclopaedia of Dance and Ballet and Everyman’s Encyclopaedia contain his rigorously researched entries. He wrote and produced Bangladesh I Love You, a film starring the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali. Lament of a Lost Hero and Other Poems, a selection of his verse, chronicles and comments on various aspects of Indian society and politics since independence. In 2002, he was invited by the Edinburgh International Festival to deliver the keynote address to inaugurate the Indian dance season. Born in Lahore, then in British India, he now lives in Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Website: www.reginaldmassey.fsnet.co.uk