Dispatches from the Margins: Theatre in India since the 1990s

Abstract

Academic scholarship on modern Indian theatre exploded in the last decade. A spate of scholarly volumes, especially those in English, was published within a few years, months even, of each other. They sought to capture and define the nature and parameters of its practice. They grappled with questions of tradition, modernity, colonialism, and its legacy realism. They probed the relation of the State to the various forms of cultural expression its boundaries engendered. And they adopted various methodologies in their troubling of standard historiographies of the field. One clear consensus still emerges from all these careful reports - there is no one Indian theatre. It is a phenomenon perforce multiple, myriad, and unexpected. It has many theatres, many languages, many influences, many economies, many and uneven modernities. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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