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Intro; Foreword I; Foreword II; Acknowledgement; Contents; About the Author; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Nation and Its Theatre: Towards a Methodology; 1.1 A Matter of Conjuncture; 1.2 Coagulating Communities: Towards a Methodology; 1.3 The Historical Context; 1.4 The Logic of Progression; 1.5 Conclusion to the Introduction; Part I: Thinking Indian Theatre; Chapter 2: Critical Meanderings: 'Theatre' in Colonial India; 2.1 The Beginnings of a Discourse on 'Theatre'; 2.2 Discovery of an Identity; 2.3 Discovering Indian Theatre; Part II: Performing Indian Theatre
Chapter 3: A New Sociability: The Colonial Urbes Prima Goes to the Theatre3.1 Towards a Study of Colonial Sociability; 3.2 Sociability in the Premier Cities: The Case of Bombay and Calcutta; 3.3 'Handsome Actresses', Colonial English Sociability and Prodigal Energies; 3.4 English 'Publicity' and Colonial English Sociability; 3.5 Colonial Knowledge Formation and 'Discovery' of the 'Other'; 3.6 'Parthenon! Brotherhood!': The Other Discovers Itself; 3.7 A Detour: Gerasim Stepanovich Lebedev and His Bengali Language 'Theatre'
3.8 Colonial Sociability, 'Theatre' and Native Elite Brotherhood in Calcutta3.9 Colonial Sociability, 'Theatre' and Native Elite Brotherhood in Bombay; 3.10 Native-English Interaction, Cultural Hegemony and Distinctive Features of the Urbes Prima Sociability; 3.11 The 'Becoming' of a Congregation: Is Our's or Their's a Relevant Question?; Chapter 4: Coming Communities and Vacillating Definitions: The Case of Censorship and Swadeshi Jatra; 4.1 Theatre: The House of Satan; 4.2 Sin, Salvation, Censorship and Theatre Within a Colonial Space; 4.3 Theatre, Identity and Colonial Native Society
4.4 Public Arena and the Jatra4.5 Coagulating Peoples, Mutating Identities and the Swadeshi Movement; 4.6 Swadeshi Jatra and Vacillating Definitions; Chapter 5: The Commune-ist Air: The Case of the IPTA Central Squad; 5.1 The Coagulating Communities at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: A Case of 'Rowing'; 5.2 The Commune-ist Air; 5.3 Commune; 5.4 Transforming a Thought Form to a Material One (I): Life in a Commune-The Case of IPTA CS; 5.5 Transforming a Thought Form to a Material One (II): Performances of the IPTA CS; 5.6 'Spirit of India'; 5.7 'India Immortal'
5.8 Communism in India and the Commune-ist Air5.9 Freedom and the Question of a National Theatre: Are They Contradictory?; Chapter 6: Epilogue: Indian Theatre: What Are We Talking About?; 6.1 On the Question of the Vitruvian Man (Fig. 6.1); 6.2 Theatre and Thiyetar or 'Yes, I Only Have One Language, Yet It Is Not Mine'; 6.3 Once More 'The National Question': The Present Perils of It; 6.4 Towards Not a Nationalist But a Contextual Definition or What Do We Call that Which We Have Called Theatre?; Bibliography; Magazines and Newspaper Articles; Paper Presented at Colloquium and Conference
Chapter 3: A New Sociability: The Colonial Urbes Prima Goes to the Theatre3.1 Towards a Study of Colonial Sociability; 3.2 Sociability in the Premier Cities: The Case of Bombay and Calcutta; 3.3 'Handsome Actresses', Colonial English Sociability and Prodigal Energies; 3.4 English 'Publicity' and Colonial English Sociability; 3.5 Colonial Knowledge Formation and 'Discovery' of the 'Other'; 3.6 'Parthenon! Brotherhood!': The Other Discovers Itself; 3.7 A Detour: Gerasim Stepanovich Lebedev and His Bengali Language 'Theatre'
3.8 Colonial Sociability, 'Theatre' and Native Elite Brotherhood in Calcutta3.9 Colonial Sociability, 'Theatre' and Native Elite Brotherhood in Bombay; 3.10 Native-English Interaction, Cultural Hegemony and Distinctive Features of the Urbes Prima Sociability; 3.11 The 'Becoming' of a Congregation: Is Our's or Their's a Relevant Question?; Chapter 4: Coming Communities and Vacillating Definitions: The Case of Censorship and Swadeshi Jatra; 4.1 Theatre: The House of Satan; 4.2 Sin, Salvation, Censorship and Theatre Within a Colonial Space; 4.3 Theatre, Identity and Colonial Native Society
4.4 Public Arena and the Jatra4.5 Coagulating Peoples, Mutating Identities and the Swadeshi Movement; 4.6 Swadeshi Jatra and Vacillating Definitions; Chapter 5: The Commune-ist Air: The Case of the IPTA Central Squad; 5.1 The Coagulating Communities at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: A Case of 'Rowing'; 5.2 The Commune-ist Air; 5.3 Commune; 5.4 Transforming a Thought Form to a Material One (I): Life in a Commune-The Case of IPTA CS; 5.5 Transforming a Thought Form to a Material One (II): Performances of the IPTA CS; 5.6 'Spirit of India'; 5.7 'India Immortal'
5.8 Communism in India and the Commune-ist Air5.9 Freedom and the Question of a National Theatre: Are They Contradictory?; Chapter 6: Epilogue: Indian Theatre: What Are We Talking About?; 6.1 On the Question of the Vitruvian Man (Fig. 6.1); 6.2 Theatre and Thiyetar or 'Yes, I Only Have One Language, Yet It Is Not Mine'; 6.3 Once More 'The National Question': The Present Perils of It; 6.4 Towards Not a Nationalist But a Contextual Definition or What Do We Call that Which We Have Called Theatre?; Bibliography; Magazines and Newspaper Articles; Paper Presented at Colloquium and Conference