Brecht in India analyses the dramaturgy and theatrical practices of
the German playwright Bertolt Brecht in post-independence India.
The book explores how post-independence Indian drama is an instance
of a cultural palimpsest, a site celebrating a dialogue between
Western and Indian theatrical traditions, rather than a homogenous
and isolated canon. Analysing the dissemination of a selection of
Brecht's plays in the Hindi belt between the 1960s and the 1990s,
this study demonstrates that Brecht's work provided aesthetic and
ideological paradigms to modern Hindi playwrights, helping them
develop and stage a national identity. The book also traces how the
reception of Brecht was mediated in India, how it helped
post-independence Indian playwrights formulate a political theatre,
and how the dissemination of Brechtian aesthetics in India
addressed the anxiety related to the stasis in Brechtian theatre in
Europe. Tracking the dialogue between Brechtian aesthetics in India
and Europe and a history of deliberate cultural resistance, Brecht
in India is an invaluable resource for academics and students of
theatre studies and theatre historiography, as well as scholars of
post-colonial history and literature.
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