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Author Da Costa, Dia

Title Development dramas : reimagining rural political action in Eastern India / Dia Da Costa
Published New Delhi ; New York : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages) : illustrations
Contents Part I; Introduction: Reimagining Development and Rural Political Action; One Development Dramas and World-Historical Anomalies; Two The Work of Political Theatre in a Democratic Place; Three Political Society in Formation: Staging Early Critiques; Part II; Four Spect-actors of History; Five 'Spoiled Sons' and 'Sincere Daughters': Schooling, Security, and Empowerment; Six Have they Disabled Us? Liquor Production and Grammars of Material Distress; Seven The Snake-Goddess and her Antidote: Compelling Collectivity against Inequality and UncertaintyConclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary Study with reference to Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed, Calcutta, India
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-291) and index
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Subject Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed (Calcutta, India)
SUBJECT Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed (Kolkata, India) fast
Subject Theater -- Political aspects -- India -- West Bengal
Theater and society -- India -- West Bengal
Political plays, Bengali -- History and criticism
Rural poor -- Political aspects -- India -- West Bengal
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Political plays, Bengali
Politics and government
Theater and society
Theater -- Political aspects
Ländlicher Raum
Politisches Theater
Politisches Handeln
SUBJECT India -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject India
India -- West Bengal
West Bengal
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317810070
1317810074
1315816253
9781315816258
9781317810087
1317810082