ABSTRACT
This book presents a lucid, comprehensive, and entertaining narrative of culture and society in late 19th- and early 20th-century Maharashtra through a perceptive study of its theatre and cinema. An intellectual tour de force, it will be invaluable to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, theatre and film studies, cultural studies, sociology, gender studies as well as the interested general reader.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|282 pages
Theatre
section I|88 pages
Phases of Evolution
section II|64 pages
Plays and Playwrights
section III|54 pages
Theatrescapes
section IV|74 pages
Gender, Performance, and Discursive Interventions
part Two|62 pages
Cinema
section V|60 pages
Motion Pictures