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Charandas Chor - And Other Plays (Paperback)
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A towering figure in twentieth-century theater in India, Habib
Tanvir was an actor, director, and playwright, working in Hindi and
Urdu. He founded the Naya Theater in 1959, through which he created
remarkable works drawing on the history and traditions of the
tribal folk of Chhattisgarh. This book brings together four plays,
all translated into English for the first time. Agra Bazar (1954),
set in the early nineteenth century amid the bustle of a colorful
street market in the iconic North Indian city, is woven together by
the wonderfully human voice of the poet Nazir, and examines some of
important cultural and socioeconomic issues of the period, such as
the declining influence of the Urdu language and the growing power
of English in colonial India. Charandas Chor (1975), Tanvir's most
famous work, is the story of a typical folk hero who robs the rich
much in the style of Robin Hood and evades the law until he comes
up against one wall he cannot scale--his own commitment to the
truth. In Bahadur Kalarin (1978), Tanvir reinvents an nearly
forgotten Chattisgarh folk tale about a mother-son relationship in
which he finds echoes of Oedipus, while in The Living Tale of Hirma
(1985) he dramatizes a historical event in which a headstrong ruler
of an Indian tribe clashes with a population who want to replace
the tribal way of life with newfound ideals of democracy, leading
to disastrous results. Enriched by introductory texts and an
intensive interview with Tanvir that covers the milestones of his
illustrious career, the book will be the perfect introduction to
Tanvir's work for English-language theater fans and scholars.
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