India: Roli Books Pvt Ltd, 2007. Colour photographic plates, 380pp, bibliography, index, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Hollywood may define our idea of movies, but it is the city of Bombay on the West coast of India that is now the centre of world cinema. Every year the... More about Bollywood. A History
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1990. Maps, black and white illustrations, xvii + 265pp, appendix, gloosary, bibliography, index, very good copy in protected dustjacket. Study of the terukkuttu, the rich, powerful ritual theatre tradition of Tamilnadu, the Tamil speaking area of South India. It focuses on the manifestation of the... More about The Theater of the Mahabharata. Terukkuttu Performances in South India
USA: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton, 1993. 368pp, appendices, references, index, good copy in dustjacket. Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician and a storyteller. At the centre of "A Carnival of Parting" are Madhu Nath's oral... More about A Carnival of Parting. The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu...
Houndmills. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. 1st Edition. Black and white illustrations, xxviii + 255pp, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, a very good copy. Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect... More about Contemporary Indian Dance. New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora
New Delhi. Impex India. 1978. xiv + 472pp, index, very good in trifle worn and little chipped dustjacket. Inscribed by the author front free endpaper. This study aims at being a window to ancient Indian music and musical lore with Dattilam as the frame. The Dattilam of Dattila, venerated by... More about A Study of Dattilam. A Treatise on the Sacred Music of Ancient India
Delhi. Vikas Publishing. 1970. Frontispiece, 176pp, cloth a little marked, sound and clean hardback copy. The author places Indian music in the perspective of Indian life and thought. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 139941). More about Filigree in Sound. Form and Content in Indian Music
New Delhi. Munshiram Manoharlal. 1991. Sanskrit text and English translation with comments and notes. Volume I: l + 450pp. Volume II: xxxii + 397pp. Dustjackets worn with a little loss, a good set. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 118064). More about Sangitaratnakara of Sarngadeva
