Charandas Chor and Other PlaysA towering figure in twentieth century Indian theatre, Habib Tanvir was an actor, director and playwright, working in Hindi and Urdu. He founded the Naya Theater in 1959, through which he created remarkable works drawing on the history and traditions of the indigenous people of Chhattisgarh. This volume brings together four of his best known plays, anthologized for the first time. Agra Bazar (1954), set in the early nineteenth century amid the bustle

outlines developments in Hore’s artistic thinking

and the fescennine verses

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and with Taste he turns his critical eye to the realm of Western art and aesthetics

With great clarity

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her legacy has only grown since her death

The first significant publication of its kind

and politics of transformation

drawings' spans the work of the last 30 years

originally written in 1996

from one to the other