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Grounds for play: the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India

Kathryn Hansen 2014 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520910881 (ebook)
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  • Asian: South and Southeast
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • List of Illustrations
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  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Preface to the Electronic Edition, 2014
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One The Name of the Nauṭaṅkī
    • First Meeting
    • Alternative Etymologies
    • The Journey
    • Renu's Actress
    • Clash and Conquest
    • Gender and Genre in Nauṭaṅkī shāhzādī
  • Chapter Two Situating an Intermediary Theatre
    • Bharata's Origin Myth
    • Boundaries of Language, Region, and Religion
    • Urban-Rural Cultural Flows
    • Parameters of the Folk and the Classical
    • Folk Theatre as a Genre of Folklore
  • Chapter Three The Landscape of Premodern Performance
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    • Devotional Drama in Hindi
    • Early References to Svāṅg
    • Khyāl Theatre of Rajasthan
    • Lāvanī Poetry and the Turrā-Kalagī Akhāṛās
    • Nath Yogis and Narrative Folklore
    • Court Theatre and the Indarsabhā
    • Urban Theatre and the Parsi Stage
  • Chapter Four Authors, Akhāṛās, and Texts
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    • The Sources of Sāṅgīt Texts: Old and New
    • Lithographed Sāṅgīts: 1866-1896
    • Natharam and the Indarman Akhāṛā of Hathras: 1892-1920
    • Other Hathras Akhāṛās
    • Extension of Nauṭaṅkī to Kanpur: 1910-1930
    • Shrikrishna Khatri Pahalvan
    • Recent Developments
    • Perspectives on Change
  • Chapter Five Kings, Warriors, and Bandits
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    • Kings Who Abandon Their Thrones
    • Honor, Loyalty, and the Warrior's Code
    • Attitudes toward British Rule
    • Dacoit Heroes: Serving the Poor
  • Chapter Six Paradigms of Pure Love
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    • The Paradigm of Pure Love
    • The Lover as Renunciant
    • Love across Boundaries of Caste and Class
    • Relations between Communities: Hindu and Muslim
  • Chapter Seven Women's Lives and Deaths
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    • The Dangers of Female Desire
    • Family, Chastity, and the Limits of Loyalty
    • The Vīrāṅganā and the Legitimation of Female Agency
    • Widows, Unwed Mothers, and Working Women
  • Chapter Eight Melody, Meter, and the Musical Medium
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    • Music for the Outdoor Stage
    • Metrical Patterns and Melodic Contours
    • From Competition to Commodity
  • Chapter Nine Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices
    • Appendix A Motif Analysis of Sāṅgīt Nauṭaṅkī shāhzādī by Natharam
    • Appendix B Khyāl Literature in British Collections
    • Appendix C Sāṅgīt Literature in British Collections
    • Appendix D Hansen Collection of Contemporary Sāṅgīts
    • Appendix E Nauṭaṅkī Performances
    • Appendix F Translation and Transcription of Indal haraṇ: The Kidnapping of Indal
    • Appendix G A Brief History of Meters in Svāṅg and Nauṭaṅkī
  • Notes
    • Introduction
    • Chapter One
    • Chapter Two
    • Chapter Three
    • Chapter Four
    • Chapter Five
    • Chapter Six
    • Chapter Seven
    • Chapter Eight
    • Chapter Nine
    • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
    • English Sources
    • Hindi Sources
    • Urdu Sources

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Portrait of Gulab Bai, Nauṭaṅkī actress of Kanpur. By permission of the Sangeet Natak Akademi.

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Title page of Sāṅgīt rānī nauṭaṅkī kā by Khushi Ram (Banaras, 1882). By permission of the British Library.

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ETMU 39.2 (Spring - Summer 1995): 282-285 http://www.jstor.org/stable/924432
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AFS 54.1 (1995): 162-163 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1178242
ATJ 10.2 (Autumn 1993): 221-225 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1124184
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