1st Edition
Folk Theatres of North India Contestation, Amalgamation and Transference
List of Figures
Foreword by Jaibir Singh Hooda
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction — Folk Theatre: Genesis, History and Causes
I. Folk Theatre and Sanskrit Dramaturgy
II. Folk Theatre and Western Theatre
IIII. Folk Theatre: The Cinematic Legacy
IV. Folk Theatrical Space as Performance
Conclusion
Glossary
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Karan Singh is Associate Professor of English at Government College for Women, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India. He has been Affiliated Fellow at International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands and Associate at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He has completed two major research projects of University Grants Commission on Dalit Literature and Folk Theatres and has published three books — Iris Murdoch: Melodrama and Metaphysics (2008), Dalitism and Feminism: Locating Women in Dalit Literature (2011), and Unknown Voices (2011). He is also Editor of OASIS, a literary annual journal and President of the Society for Promotion of English Language and Literature.
