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Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India - Formation of a Community through Cultural Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India - Formation of a Community through Cultural Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This book critically engages with the study of theatre and
performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and
postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom,
institution-building, modernity, nation/subject not only as
concepts but also as philosophical queries. It opens up with the
discourse around 'Indian theatre' that was started by the
orientalists in the late 18th century, and which continued till
much later. The study specifically focuses on the two major urban
centres of colonial India: Bombay and Calcutta of the 19th and
early 20th centuries. It discusses different cultural practices in
colonial India, including the initiation of 'Indian theatre'
practices, which resulted in many forms of colonial-native
'theatre' by the 19th century; the challenges to this dominant
discourse from the 'swadeshi jatra' (national jatra/theatre) in
Bengal, which drew upon earlier folk and religious traditions and
was used as a tool by the nationalist movement; and the Indian
People's Theatre Association (IPTA) that functioned from Bombay
around the 1940s, which focused on the creation of one national
subject - that of the 'Indian'. The author contextualizes the
relevance of the concept of 'Indian theatre' in today's political
atmosphere. She also critically analyses the post-Independence
Drama Seminar organized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1956 and
its relevance to the subsequent organization of 'Indian theatre'.
Many theatre personalities who emerged as faces of smaller theatre
committees were part of the seminar which envisioned a national
cultural body. This book is an important contribution to the field
and is of interest to researchers and students of cultural studies,
especially Theatre and Performance Studies, and South Asian
Studies.
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