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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2018

Extract

These three essays on distinct research areas and case studies cover a broad history of educational institutions in India, their focus on theatre and cultural education, and their role in creating citizens active in the public sphere and civic communities. The common point of reference for all the three essays is the historical transition from pre- to post-independence India, and they represent three dominant genres of Indian theatre practice: the amateur progressive theatre emerging out of sociopolitical movements; the State Drama School, which has remained at the core of the state's policy and vision of a national theatre; and college theatre, which comprises the field from which the National School of Drama sources its acting students, as well as new audiences for urban theatres.

Type
Essays: Pedagogies of Citizenship: Performance, Institutions and Gendering
Copyright
Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2018 

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References

NOTES

1 Chatterjee, Partha, ‘Theatre and the Public of Democracy: Between Melodrama and Rational Realism’, Theatre Research International, 41, 3 (2016), pp. 202–17, here p. 213.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Ibid., p. 209.

3 Ibid.

4 The project was funded by UGC and UKIERI.

5 Chatterjee, Partha, Lineages of Political Society (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2011), p. 14.Google Scholar

6 Ibid., p. 177.

7 Chatterjee, ‘Theatre and the Public of Democracy’, p. 215.