Performers And Their Arts

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