Hindi Drama

Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama

• Author(s): Diana Dimitrova

• Categories: Drama

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2008
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• Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama studies the representation of gender and religion in Hindi drama from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1960s. This is the period when urban proscenium Hindi theatre, which originated under Western influence, matured and thrived. The focus is on how different religious and mythological models pertaining to women have been reworked in Hindi drama and whether the seven representative dramatists discussed in this book assert conservative or liberating Hindu images of the feminine. The book examines how the intersections of gender, religion, and ideology account for the creation of the canon of modern Hindi drama, speci...

Indian Drama

• Author(s): India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division

• Categories: Indic drama

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1981
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Hindi Literature

• Author(s): Indu Prakash Pandey

• Categories: Literary Criticism

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1975
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• Publisher: Calcutta : Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay

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Catalogue of Books

• Author(s): Bengal Library

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1891
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Catalogues of the Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, and Pushtu Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

• Author(s): James Fuller Blumhardt

• Categories: Hindi imprints

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1893
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• Publisher: Unknown

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