Hinduism and Hindi Theater
This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960. It discusses representative works of seven influential playwrights and looks into the ways they have imagined and re-imagine
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Hinduism and Hindi Theatre
Hinduism and Hindi Theater
Diana Dimitrova
Hinduism and Hindi Theater
Diana Dimitrova
ISBN 978-1-137-59922-3 ISBN 978-1-137-59923-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59923-0
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Ha мaмa и тaткo and For Katie, Alex, and Ger
CONTENTS
1 Introduction
1
2 Rethinking Hinduism, Mythologizing, and Otherism
7
3 Revisiting Hindi Theatre: Inventing Tradition
31
4 Hinduism, Nationalism, and Varṇāśramadharma: Mythologizing and Othering the Religious Other
63
5 Hinduism and Gender: Mythologizing and Othering Women
97
Conclusion: A Hindu–Hindi Drama?
159
Summary of Dramas
167
Bibliography
179
Index
205 vii
THE AUTHOR
Diana Dimitrova obtained her PhD in Modern and Classical Indology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 2000. She is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Religions at the University of Montreal in Montreal, Canada. Her research interests are Hindi drama and theatre; Bollywood film; modern and pre-modern literary and religious cultures of North India, especially sant and bhakti literary and religious traditions. She is the author of Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama (2008) and Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004). She is also the editor of The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness (2014) and Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010). Her articles include “The Treatment of Women and Gender in the Plays Asharh ka ek din and Adhe adhure by Mohan Rakesh (1925– 1972),” in Toþwa-e-dil. Festschrift Helmut Nespital (2001); “Of satis, Sitas, and Miras: Three Female Protagonists in Modern Hindi Drama,” in Heroes and Heritage:
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