This work is an original and pioneering exploration of not only the social history of the subcontinent but also of performance and popular culture. The domain of analysis is entirely novel and opens up a bolder approach of laying a new field of historical enquiry of South Asia. Trawling through an extraordinary set of sources such as colonial and postcolonial records, newspaper reports, unpublished autobiographies, private papers, photographs and oral interviews the
author brings out a fascinating account of the transnational landscape of physical cultures, human and animal performers and the circus industry.
- ISBN10 0199496706
- ISBN13 9780199496709
- Publish Date 24 September 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English