Book review: The colonial public and the Parsi stage: the making of the theatre of empire (1853-1893) by Rashna Darius Nicholson

Mukhopadhyay, Aparajita (2021) Book review: The colonial public and the Parsi stage: the making of the theatre of empire (1853-1893) by Rashna Darius Nicholson. LSE Review of Books (06 Oct 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893), Rashna Darius Nicholson presents a new account of the birth and coming of age of Parsi theatre in India in the second half of the nineteenth century. Successfully charting the transformations to this preeminent form of entertainment in late colonial South Asia, the book uses the interesting and under-examined lens of Parsi theatre to explore the ambivalences and dichotomies that marked the emergence of a vernacular public sphere in the period, writes Aparajita Mukhopadhyay. The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893). Rashna Darius Nicholson. Palgrave. 2021.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater
Date Deposited:	10 Jan 2022 12:00
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 03:17
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/112868

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