Habir Tanvir and other plays: (Record no. 80412)
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| fixed length control field | 02012nam a22001457a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780857424952 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 822 C3618 H |
| Item number | 108272 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Chandra das Chor |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Habir Tanvir and other plays: |
| Remainder of title | New Indian playwrite |
| Medium | English |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication | Calcutta |
| Name of publisher | Seagull |
| Date of publication | 2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 397 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | A towering figure in twentieth-century theater in India, 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 tribal folk of Chhattisgarh. This book brings together four plays, all translated into English for the first time. Agra Bazar (1954), set in the early nineteenth century amid the bustle of a colorful street market in the iconic North Indian city, is woven together by the wonderfully human voice of the poet Nazir and examines some of important cultural and socioeconomic issues of the period, such as the declining influence of the Urdu language and the growing power of English in colonial India. Charandas Chor (1975), Tanvir’s most famous work, is the story of a typical folk hero who robs the rich much in the style of Robin Hood and evades the law until he comes up against one wall he cannot scale his own commitment to the truth. In Bahadur Kalarin (1978), Tanvir reinvents an nearly forgotten Chattisgarh folk tale about a mother–son relationship in which he finds echoes of Oedipus, while in the Living Tale of Hirma (1985) he dramatizes a historical event in which a headstrong ruler of an Indian tribe clashes with a population who want to replace the tribal way of life with newfound ideals of democracy, leading to disastrous results. Enriched by introductory texts and an intensive interview with Tanvir that covers the milestones of his illustrious career, the book will be the perfect introduction to Tanvir’s work for English-language theater fans and scholars. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Tanavīra, Habība |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Ubhayabharati | Ubhayabharati | General Stacks | 03/12/2019 | 599.00 | 822 C3618 H 108272 | 108272 | 03/12/2019 | Books |