ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the relations of influence and resistance between post-independence Indian theatre and Brechtian aesthetics. It explores the problem of poetics and politics of Brechtian theatre in India from multiple perspectives. The book discusses the politics of Brechtian theatre in India by reading it against the Indian carnivalesque tradition and poetic realism of classical Indian drama. Dabashi’s idea of epistemic racism is articulated in the treatment of the Indian variant of Brechtian theatre as a peripheral as well as an uninfluential site that can’t contribute to the Eurocentric idea of Brechtian theatre. Responding to this culture of peripheralisation, which flattens the significance of an alternative discourse and prevents people inhabiting the periphery from being heard, my study has presented “periphery” as a constellation of parallel systems of thought.
