Karan Singh is Associate Professor of English at Government College for Women, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India. He has been Affiliated Fellow at International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands and Associate at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He has completed two major research projects of University Grants Commission on Dalit Literature and Folk Theatres and has published three books — Iris Murdoch: Melodrama and Metaphysics (2008), Dalitism and Feminism: Locating Women in Dalit Literature (2011), and Unknown Voices (2011). He is also Editor of OASIS, a literary annual journal and President of the Society for Promotion of English Language and Literature.

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• Foreword. Acknowledgements. Note on Transliteration. Introduction — Folk Theatre: Genesis, History and Causes 1. Folk Theatre and Sanskrit Dramaturgy 2. Folk Theatre and Western Theatre 3. Folk Theatre: The Cinematic Legacy 4. Folk Theatrical Space as Performance. Conclusion. Glossary. Works Cited. Index

Karan Singh is Associate Professor of English at Government College for Women, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India. He has been Affiliated Fellow at International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands and Associate at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He has completed two major research projects of University Grants Commission on Dalit Literature and Folk Theatres and has published three books — Iris Murdoch: Melodrama and Metaphysics (2008), Dalitism and Feminism: Locating Women in Dalit Literature (2011), and Unknown Voices (2011). He is also Editor of OASIS, a literary annual journal and President of the Society for Promotion of English Language and Literature.

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• Foreword. Acknowledgements. Note on Transliteration. Introduction — Folk Theatre: Genesis, History and Causes 1. Folk Theatre and Sanskrit Dramaturgy 2. Folk Theatre and Western Theatre 3. Folk Theatre: The Cinematic Legacy 4. Folk Theatrical Space as Performance. Conclusion. Glossary. Works Cited. Index

Karan Singh is Associate Professor of English at Government College for Women, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India. He has been Affiliated Fellow at International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands and Associate at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He has completed two major research projects of University Grants Commission on Dalit Literature and Folk Theatres and has published three books — Iris Murdoch: Melodrama and Metaphysics (2008), Dalitism and Feminism: Locating Women in Dalit Literature (2011), and Unknown Voices (2011). He is also Editor of OASIS, a literary annual journal and President of the Society for Promotion of English Language and Literature.

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• Foreword. Acknowledgements. Note on Transliteration. Introduction — Folk Theatre: Genesis, History and Causes 1. Folk Theatre and Sanskrit Dramaturgy 2. Folk Theatre and Western Theatre 3. Folk Theatre: The Cinematic Legacy 4. Folk Theatrical Space as Performance. Conclusion. Glossary. Works Cited. Index