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Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures ; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Bhan̄d: aßLiving Tradition; Notes onßtheßInvention ofßTradition; The Bhānd Mode; Ranga andßBighla; Asserting andßDebunking; Reinvention; Structure; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Genealogies; Chapter 2: The Bhānd: In theßCentres andßMargins ofßtheßHistoricalßRecord; Liminality InßandßBeyond theßMuslim Court (1206-1857); Colonial Classifications (1858-1947); Literary Revisions andßRevivals; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Brahmin Jesters andßSufi Wise Fools; Brahmin Jesters; Sufi Wise Fools; Bahlul.
Mullah NasruddinIndo-Muslim Jestering; Tenali Rama; Birbal; In aßMelting Pot ofßHoney; The Mirror; Performing inßMultiple Power Arenas; Status Hierarchies; Justice; Religious Rituals; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Contemporary Performance; Chapter 4: Wedding Bhānds: 'From theßDonkey Cart toßtheßAeroplane'; Introduction: Feudalism andßUrban Capitalism; The Gift ofßRemembrance; Playing Status; Class Affiliation; The Political Elite; The Upwardly Mobile; Lower Income Groups; Note; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Bhānds inßtheßDrawing Room: TheßPopular Punjabi Theatre.
Contemporary Performance StructuresHistory; Colonial Legacies; Bhānd Interventions; Women Dancers; Class Strife inßKuch na Kaho; Transgendering inßEik Tera Sanum Khana; The Woman inßBillo, Billi aur Baali; Transgression andßIts Limits; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Satellite Bhānds: TheßPlayful Outsiders; Democratisation ofßtheßMedia, Its Binaries, andßtheßBhānd; Enter: theßBhānd; The Bhānd Plays Back; Political Interactions; Notes; Bibliography; Conclusion: Future Moves?; Note; Bibliography; Appendix; Glossary; Glossary; Index.
Mullah NasruddinIndo-Muslim Jestering; Tenali Rama; Birbal; In aßMelting Pot ofßHoney; The Mirror; Performing inßMultiple Power Arenas; Status Hierarchies; Justice; Religious Rituals; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Contemporary Performance; Chapter 4: Wedding Bhānds: 'From theßDonkey Cart toßtheßAeroplane'; Introduction: Feudalism andßUrban Capitalism; The Gift ofßRemembrance; Playing Status; Class Affiliation; The Political Elite; The Upwardly Mobile; Lower Income Groups; Note; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Bhānds inßtheßDrawing Room: TheßPopular Punjabi Theatre.
Contemporary Performance StructuresHistory; Colonial Legacies; Bhānd Interventions; Women Dancers; Class Strife inßKuch na Kaho; Transgendering inßEik Tera Sanum Khana; The Woman inßBillo, Billi aur Baali; Transgression andßIts Limits; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Satellite Bhānds: TheßPlayful Outsiders; Democratisation ofßtheßMedia, Its Binaries, andßtheßBhānd; Enter: theßBhānd; The Bhānd Plays Back; Political Interactions; Notes; Bibliography; Conclusion: Future Moves?; Note; Bibliography; Appendix; Glossary; Glossary; Index.