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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: boundary of laughter
    sub title: popular performances across borders in South Asia
  name:
    name part: De, Aniket
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ii
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)
  abstract: "The Boundary of Laughter explores the historical transformation of popular imagination and performance in relation to the emergence of national borders in modern South Asia. Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, it analyses how peasants and laborers presently dwelling on either side of the Indo-Bangladesh border have used the performance tradition known as Gambhira to taunt oppressors, mobilize political sentiment, frame socio-economic demands and respond to seismic political shifts since 1900. Rejecting the idea of ‘communalism', or the theory of perpetual conflict between the Hindus and Muslims, the book explores Gambhira as a shared social space, constituted through relations across national and religious boundaries. The history of Gambhira shows how the performance existed seamlessly, harnessing both Muslim and Hindu life-worlds and uniting them in the face of colonial oppression. Then came Partition: when, after a troubling process of alignment, a border was forcefully imposed on the region, aiming to place Muslims on one side and Hindus on the other; this ultimately produced two versions of Gambhira, each with their particular postcolonial histories and postcolonial performative forms (one still featuring Shiva, the other taking up the trope of the grandfather/grandson). The shared cultural space of Gambhira, in other words, have not been confined to the territorial boundaries of nation-states. The book uses Gambhira as a lens to examine how performances at South Asia's borders serve to mediate between larger political-economic changes and smaller, lived worlds of popular expression"--Publisher's description.
  note: Aniket De.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: az-----
  subject:
    topic: Performing arts
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: South Asia
  subject:
    topic: Performance art
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: South Asia
  subject:
    geographic: South Asia
    topic: Boundaries
  subject:
    topic: Arts du spectacle
    topic: Aspect politique
    geographic: Asie méridionale
  subject:
    topic: Boundaries
  subject:
    topic: Performance art
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Performing arts
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    geographic: South Asia
  classification: PN2860 .D43 2021
  classification: 306.4840954
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    title info:
      title: Boundary of laughter
    name:
      name part: De, Aniket.
    origin info:
      publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2021
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2020511092
    identifier: (OCoLC)1285689325
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  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230707
    record change date: 20260318165725.3
    record identifier: in00005698474
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng