Hinduism and Hindi Theater

Diana Dimitrova is Associate Professor of Hinduism and South Asian religions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004) and Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama (2008). She is also the editor of Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010) and The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness (2014).

“Hinduism and Hindi Theater provides a valuable introduction to the work of seven Hindi playwrights and contributes to our thinking about how their work exploits and feeds into discourses concerning the representation of Hindu religious and cultural motifs, especially those concerning the roles and status of women.” (Mikel Burley, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, October, 2017)

• Introduction.- 1. Rethinking Hinduism, Mythologizing, and Otherism.- 2. Revisiting Hindi Drama – Inventing Tradition.- 3. Hinduism, Nationalism and Varramadharma: Mythologizing and Othering theReligious Other.- 4. Hinduism and Gender: Mythologizing and Othering Women.- Conclusion: A Hindu-Hindi Drama.- Appendix. Summary of Dramas.