The period between 1850 and 1950 was a magnificent time for the world of performing arts. Classical music, dance, drama and folklore traditions werw being rewritten and reinterpreted to welcome a new age. These arts were a reflection of the time, but they had larger role to play than as mere entertainment.
Drama Queens: Women who created history on stage places itself at the crossroads of understanding modern cultural history. Through ten leading ladies of theatre, including Munni Bai, Mukhtar Begum, Jahanara Kajjan and Moti Bai, the book traces an unwritten narrative of women, performance, nationhood and modernity. The visuals knit a historical account reflecting the rich artistic lives they led. Through a project of memory, this book is a tribute to the gaint contribution of these women to the making of art history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Girish Karnad
Girish Karnad was Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He has served as Director of the Film and Television Institute of India, Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi (the National Academy of the Performing Arts) and Director of the Nehru Centre, London (the cultural wing of the High Commission of India). He was Visiting Professor and Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Chicago. He has been elected Fellow of the Sangeet natak Akademi, and has received the Sahitya Akademi, and has received the Sahitya Akademi award as well as the Jnanpith, India's highest distinctions for lifetime contribution to literature and the arts. He has been decorated with the Padma Bhushan. His career as a dramatist has been paralleled by an equally celebrated career as actor, screenwriter and diretor of film and television, through which he played a pivotal role in the Indian Parallel Cinema movement from the 1970s to 1990s.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Veejay Sai
Veejay Sai is an award-winning writer, editor, translator and culture critic. he has written on Indian classical music, dance, theatre and art history. He lives and works in New Delhi. Drama Queens is his first book.
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