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.

chapter |30 pages

Introduction

part One|282 pages

Theatre

section I|88 pages

Phases of Evolution

chapter 2|22 pages

Prose Plays

Reinventing and Founding Traditions (c. 1860)

chapter 3|17 pages

B.P. Kirloskar’s Musical Plays (1880)

chapter 4|21 pages

New Paradigms of Social Realism (1930s)

section II|64 pages

Plays and Playwrights

chapter 5|21 pages

The Kirloskar Trio

Deval, Kolhatkar, Gadkari

chapter 6|16 pages

‘Natyacharya’ Khadilkar

Ideology and Entertainment

chapter 7|25 pages

Selected Renowned Playwrights

section III|54 pages

Theatrescapes

chapter 8|25 pages

Major Theatre Companies

chapter 9|27 pages

The Theatre World

section IV|74 pages

Gender, Performance, and Discursive Interventions

chapter 10|24 pages

Enter Women

Pioneering Women Dramatists and Actresses

chapter 11|26 pages

Bal Gandharva

From Female Impersonator to Icon of New Womanhood

chapter 12|22 pages

Drama as a Mode of Discourse

part Two|62 pages

Cinema

section V|60 pages

Motion Pictures

chapter 13|32 pages

Silent Films and Talkies

chapter 14|26 pages

The Early Silver Stars