Kutiyattam: the heritage theatre of India

Gopalakrishnan, Sudha

ISBN: 9788189738822, 8189738828

This book is the first major book on this vibrant theatre tradition that existed in India from the times of the Natya Sastra. It traces the history and evolution of Kutiyattam through different ages, its aesthetics and theatre grammar as well as the challenges in its transmission to a new generation of artists and viewers.

Ram Gopal: interweaving histories of Indian dance

David, Ann R.

ISBN: 9789356401938, 9356401934

This book explores the significant role that Indian dancer Ram Gopal (1912-2003) played in bringing Indian dance to international audiences from the 1930s to the late 1960s. Almost single-handedly, Gopal changed the perception of Indian dance abroad, introducing a global audience to specificity of movement, classically trained dancers, live musicians and exquisitely detailed costumes, modelled ...

Sangit sopan

Jauhri, Sima

Introduction to important aspects of music.

Where histories reside: India as filmed space

Jaikumar, Priya

ISBN: 9789352879038, 9352879031

Theory and the notation of Karnatic music: the ragas of Tanjore

Clements, E.

ISBN: 9788182903432, 8182903432

Kennet, Derek et al.

The language of Kathakali: a guide to mudras

Premakumar

ISBN: 9788182904729, 8182904722

Languid bodies grounded stances: the curving pathway of neoclassical Odissi dance

Sikand, Nandini

ISBN: 9789386392411, 9386392410

Widely believed to be the oldest Indian dance tradition, odissi has transformed over the centuries from a sacred temple ritual to a transnational genre performed throughout the world. Building on ethnographic research in various locations, this book traces the evolution of Odissi dance and reveals the richness, rigor, and complexity of the form as it practiced today.

Lata Mangeshkar... in her own voice, conversations with Nasreen Munni Kabir

ISBN: 9788189738419, 8189738410

This book is a series of fascinating conversations between Lata Mangeshkar and Nasreen Munni Kabir, takes us into the world of India's most gifted singer and reveals the person behind the voice that has provided the soundtrack for the lives of billions.

Hindustani ragas: the concept of time and season

Razdan, Vijay Bazaz

This book throws a light on the most distinguishing features of Hindustani Music System dealing with Time-Thery Concept or practice of assigning stated time of the day or night or any season prescribed for singing/playing a particular Raga.

Reimagining One Nation, One Music

Das, Iman et al.

ISBN: 9789394797079, 9394797076

India has never been a land of mono-culture. The subcontinent, on the contrary, has always been a melting pot of languages, religions, belief systems, social hierarchies and myriads of fine arts, performing arts and applied arts and crafts.

Le commentaire De Harihara Sur Le Malatimadhava De Bhavabhuti ed. by Francois Grimal, intro. in French

Le Gitalamkara: L'ouvrage original de Bharata sur la musique, edition critique, traduction francaise et introdution par Alain Danielou et N.R. Bhatt (in Sanskrit and French)

This is a first translation and critical edition of the Gitalamkara, a reference work and the oldest known treatise on the theory of music and its codification in India, cited by such later treatises as the Natya Sastra. The present translation (in French) derives from the only known manuscript of the text.

Lectures on the Natyasastra, foreword by V.N. Jha

Tripathi, Radha Vallabh

Dance dancers and musicians collected writings of Nandini Ramini

Raghavan, V.

ISBN: 9788100001967, 8100001960

The legacy of India, with an introd. by The Marquess of Zetland, London, 1937

Garratt GT (1882-1942)

ISBN: 9788189320041, 8189320041

Provides insight into the vast diversity of India. It contains brilliant essays on Indian language and literature, art, architecture and archaeology, music, science and philosophy and religion etc. by both foreign and Indian thinkers.

Les Duha de Dhola-Maru: Une ancienne ballade du Rajasthan; Avec introcution, traduction et notes par Charlotte Vaudeville, (in French and Old Marvari).

ISBN: 9788189968083, 8189968084

The legend of Dhola-Maru is an ancient ballad composed in old Marvari, one of the first dialects of north India to attain the status of a literary language. The text presented here with a translation into French is based primarily on the recension of Bikaner.

Let's know India: the land of wonders

Dogra, Ramesh Chander et al.

ISBN: 9788176502016, 8176502014

This book will provide interesting aspects of Indian art and architecture, music, films, dances, monuments, food, costumes, wild life etc.

Level crossing: railway journeys in Hindi cinema

Singh, Vijaya

ISBN: 9788125059462, 8125059466

The book is a study of the representation of the railways as a cultural, perceptual, temporal and metaphoric paradigm of modern life in Hindi cinema.

Documentation on Cinema: in the records of Bihar state archives, 3 vols.

ISBN: 9789381456453, 9381456453

Pure evil: the bad men of Bollywood

Vittal, Balaji

ISBN: 9789354893186, 935489318X

In this book, the author examines, in delicious detail, the misdeeds of the gangster, the sly relative, the corrupt policeman, the psychopathic killer.;