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Theatre and national identity in colonial India = formation of a community through cultural practice /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Theatre and national identity in colonial India/ by Sharmistha Saha.
Reminder of title:	formation of a community through cultural practice /
Author:	Saha, Sharmistha.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Singapore : : 2018.,
Description:	xvi, 175 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Theater - History - 19th century. - India -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1177-2
ISBN:	9789811311772

Theatre and national identity in colonial India = formation of a community through cultural practice /
Saha, Sharmistha.

Theatre and national identity in colonial Indiaformation of a community through cultural practice /[electronic resource] :by Sharmistha Saha. - Singapore :Springer Singapore :2018. - xvi, 175 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Nation and its Theatre: Towards a Methodology -- Part I Thinking Indian Theatre -- 2. Critical Meanderings: 'Theatre' in Colonial India -- Part II Performing Indian Theatre -- 3. A New Sociability: The Colonial Urbes Prima Goes to the Theatre -- 4. Coming Communities and Vacillating Definitions: The Case of Censorship and Swadeshi Jatra -- 5. The Commune-ist Air--The Case of the IPTA Central Squad -- 6. Epilogue: Indian Theatre: What Are We Talking About? -- Bibliography.

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.

ISBN: 9789811311772

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-13-1177-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1210521
Theater
--History--India--19th century.

LC Class. No.: PN2883 / .S243 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 792.0954

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