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Mobile Theatre of Assam: Public Culture, Counter-Public and Consumption book cover

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Mobile Theatre of Assam Public Culture, Counter-Public and Consumption

By Rituparna Patgiri Copyright 2027
200 Pages
by Routledge

This book seeks to foreground mobile theatre as an integral part of the modern Assamese public sphere and public culture. Mobile theatre groups in Assam perform their plays by travelling across the state, and are often seen as an assertion of Assamese identity in the face of increasing globalisation. The book interrogates whether mobile theatre can be read as a counter-public, articulating in... Read more

1. An Introduction to Mobile Theatre of Assam  2. Public Sphere or Public Culture? Understanding Mobile Theatre in Assam  3. A Brief History of Mobile Theatre of Assam  4. Structure, Form and Content of Assam’s Mobile Theatre  5. Resistance and the Politics of Identity Assertion in Mobile Theatre   6. Mobile Theatre’s Entertainment Value and Consumerist Politics   7. Conclusion

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Biography

Rituparna Patgiri is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. Her research interests lie in exploring questions of culture, food, media, gender and pedagogy. She served as the Associate Editor of Society, a journal, from 2023 to 2025. She is the Convenor of the Ad Hoc Group 01 – Food, Culture and Society of the Indian Sociological Society (ISS). Patgiri is one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology and a Guest Academic Editor of PLOS Global Public Health. She has two published books to her credit - Food, Culture, and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives (2026) and Sociology of Gender in India: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives (2026). She has received The International Centre Goa's (ICG) Scholars-in-Residency award for 2026 for this book project.

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