This book focuses on the cohering elements across various texts and traditions of India. It engages with several significant works from the Sanskrit tradition a

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In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with t

This volume critically engages with the question of cultural difference and the idea of living with diversity in the context of India and Europe. It looks at ce

Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduismfocuses on one of the major festivals of western India, the Ganapati Utsava, dedicated to the elephant-headed