Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India Formation of a Commu
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 als
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Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India Formation of a Community through Cultural Practice
Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India
Sharmistha Saha
Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India Formation of a Community through Cultural Practice
Sharmistha Saha Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Foreword I
Sharmistha Saha’s study Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India marks a highly innovative addition to Indian theatre historiography. The first pages already testify to the fact that this book opens up a new perspective on history. Living up to its title, it begins with a critical re-examination of its two fundamental terms— ‘India’ and ‘theatre’. What do they mean? What parameters have been and continue to be used to define the Indian nation and Indian theatre? By looking at both as certain kinds of groups, Saha investigates how the emergence of an ‘Indian nation’ and that of an ‘Indian theatre’ are interrelated. Tracing the problems inherent in the term ‘theatre’ when it comes to different performance genres from the Sanskrit plays to various religious and folk trad
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