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Rani Karna

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Kolkata, India

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Rani Karnaa, born in 1939 in Hyderabad, Sindh, British India (now Pakistan), was a distinguished Indian classical dancer, primarily known for her mastery of Kathak, though she also achieved proficiency in Odissi. Her family relocated to Delhi in 1942, where she began her dance training at the tender age of four. Karnaa received extensive training in Kathak…

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  • Vice-President's Gold Medal - Shankar's Weekly (1954)
  • Order of the Queen of Laos (1964)
  • Sangeet Varidhi - Bharatiya Kala Kendra
  • New Delhi (1977)
  • Vijay Ratna - Indian International Friendship Society
  • New Delhi (1990)

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