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Performers and Their Arts
Folk, Popular and Classical Genres in a Changing India
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
