Performers and Their Arts

A fascinating study that seeks to determine whether the performing arts are still alive in India today. A respected team of contributors examine the role culture and tradition have played in building a performing memory bank of great depth and range.

Introduction Part I: Caste, Community and performance

A ritual performance of Kerala, Vayala Vasudevan Pillai

The Patuas of Bengal, Makbul Islam

Bards and goddesses: The Pombalas in Tirupati, Anand Akundy

Explorations in the art forms of the Cindu madigas in Andhra, Y A Sudhakar Reddy and R R Harischandra

Caste identity and performance in a fisher-village of Assam, Kishore Bhattacharjee

Part II: Performance Beyond Caste

Telugu pady natakam in Andhra: Performance dynamics, P Subbachary

Modernising tradition: The yaksagana in Karnataka, Guru Rao Bapat

Kalarippayatt as aesthetics and the politics of invisibility in Kerala, P K Sasidharan

India People’s Theatre Association in colonial Andhra, V Ramakrishna

Gaddar and the politics and pain of singing, D Venkat Rao

Reviving moghal tamsa in Orissa, Sachi Mohanty

Part III: Classical Dance and its Successors

New directions in Indian dance, Sunil Kothari

Transpositions in kuchipudi dance, Aruna Bhikshu

The impact of commercialization in dance, K Subadra Murthy

Art addressing social problems, Ananda Shankar Jayant

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