Jumbos and Jumping Devils
A Social History of Indian Circus
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9780199496709
Publication date:
02/09/2020
Hardback
320 pages
228x134mm
Price: 1195.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199496709
Publication date:
02/09/2020
Hardback
320 pages
Nisha P R
One of the pioneering academic works on the circus industry in South Asia.,Use of a plethora of archival documents from the colonial and post colonial times along with oral interviews make this work an important study of the performance indiustry in India.
Rights: World Rights
Nisha P R
Description
This work is an original and pioneering exploration of not only the social history of the subcontinent but also of performance and popular culture. The domain of analysis is entirely novel and opens up a bolder approach of laying a new field of historical enquiry of South Asia. Trawling through an extraordinary set of sources such as colonial and postcolonial records, newspaper reports, unpublished autobiographies, private papers, photographs and oral interviews the author brings out a fascinating account of the transnational landscape of physical cultures, human and animal performers and the circus industry.
About the author
Dr. Nisha P R, Independent Researcher
Nisha P R received her doctorate from Delhi University, India in 2015. Her research was on the social history of circus and circus performances in twentieth century South India. Her monograph, The Jumping Devils: A Tale of Circus Bodies has been published in the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Occasional Paper Series. Her writings have appeared, amongst others, in Indian Economic and Social History Review, Economic and Political Weekly, Conservation and Society, Indian Journal of Gender Studies and Social Science Probings. She has been awarded the Swedish South Asia Studies Network postdoctoral fellowship in Lund University, Sweden, Charles Wallace India Trust Research Grant, UK, Indian Council of Historical Research Junior Research Fellowship, New Delhi and the Papiya Ghosh Memorial Trust Ph.D Fellowship from Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India. She has curated 'Indian Circus: A Photo Exhibition in Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in 2013 (18-24 January) and organized an
international conference, Circus Histories and Theories (21-22 June 2018) in Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa where she has been a Social Science Research Council Tranregional Fellow.
Nisha P R
Table of contents
LIST OF IMAGES vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
Introduction: One Step inside the Ring 1
1. Performing Bodies and Physical Cultures 29
2. Animals, Circus, and the State 82
3. Tenting the Circus 142
4. Circus Workers and Trade Unions 193
Coda: Children of a Lesser God 243
BIBLIOGRAPHY 269
INDEX 294
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 303
Images
1.1 Keeleri Kunhikannan, circa 1938 42
1.2 M. K. Raman’s Circus Kalari 57
2.1 Publicity Flyer, Grand Kerala Circus 98
2.2 Letterhead, Gemini Circus, circa 1970 119
2.3 Animals Training at the Shikarkhana , circa 1930 122
2.4 Damoo Dhotre and Sonia 134
3.1 Advertisement of a Double-poled Tent Given
by the Adamjee Peerbhoy Tent Factory in Bombay 156
3.2 Women’s Quarters, Great Bombay Circus, circa 1970 182
3.3 Travel Route of a Small Circus Company 191
4.1 Indian Circus Federation Members with
Morarji Desai, the then Prime Minister 199
4.2 Membership Form for the All India Circus
Employees Union, circa 1955 202
4.3 Inauguration, Akhil Bharath Circus, 30 December 1964 215
C.1 Child Acrobats, Galaxy Circus, circa 1960 249
C.2 Children in Kerala Circus Academy, 2012 263
Nisha P R
Description
This work is an original and pioneering exploration of not only the social history of the subcontinent but also of performance and popular culture. The domain of analysis is entirely novel and opens up a bolder approach of laying a new field of historical enquiry of South Asia. Trawling through an extraordinary set of sources such as colonial and postcolonial records, newspaper reports, unpublished autobiographies, private papers, photographs and oral interviews the author brings out a fascinating account of the transnational landscape of physical cultures, human and animal performers and the circus industry.
About the author
Dr. Nisha P R, Independent Researcher
Nisha P R received her doctorate from Delhi University, India in 2015. Her research was on the social history of circus and circus performances in twentieth century South India. Her monograph, The Jumping Devils: A Tale of Circus Bodies has been published in the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Occasional Paper Series. Her writings have appeared, amongst others, in Indian Economic and Social History Review, Economic and Political Weekly, Conservation and Society, Indian Journal of Gender Studies and Social Science Probings. She has been awarded the Swedish South Asia Studies Network postdoctoral fellowship in Lund University, Sweden, Charles Wallace India Trust Research Grant, UK, Indian Council of Historical Research Junior Research Fellowship, New Delhi and the Papiya Ghosh Memorial Trust Ph.D Fellowship from Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India. She has curated 'Indian Circus: A Photo Exhibition in Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in 2013 (18-24 January) and organized an
international conference, Circus Histories and Theories (21-22 June 2018) in Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa where she has been a Social Science Research Council Tranregional Fellow.
Table of contents
LIST OF IMAGES vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
Introduction: One Step inside the Ring 1
1. Performing Bodies and Physical Cultures 29
2. Animals, Circus, and the State 82
3. Tenting the Circus 142
4. Circus Workers and Trade Unions 193
Coda: Children of a Lesser God 243
BIBLIOGRAPHY 269
INDEX 294
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 303
Images
1.1 Keeleri Kunhikannan, circa 1938 42
1.2 M. K. Raman’s Circus Kalari 57
2.1 Publicity Flyer, Grand Kerala Circus 98
2.2 Letterhead, Gemini Circus, circa 1970 119
2.3 Animals Training at the Shikarkhana , circa 1930 122
2.4 Damoo Dhotre and Sonia 134
3.1 Advertisement of a Double-poled Tent Given
by the Adamjee Peerbhoy Tent Factory in Bombay 156
3.2 Women’s Quarters, Great Bombay Circus, circa 1970 182
3.3 Travel Route of a Small Circus Company 191
4.1 Indian Circus Federation Members with
Morarji Desai, the then Prime Minister 199
4.2 Membership Form for the All India Circus
Employees Union, circa 1955 202
4.3 Inauguration, Akhil Bharath Circus, 30 December 1964 215
C.1 Child Acrobats, Galaxy Circus, circa 1960 249
C.2 Children in Kerala Circus Academy, 2012 263
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