The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage. The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853–1893)

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Acknowledgments Glossary Transliteration Note Contents Abbreviations List of Figures 1 Introduction The Cultural Comprador The Public Sphere Religion and Revolution Women The Archive Part I Discipline 2 Parsi Compradors and the Public Sphere Parsi Compradors, Colonial Education, and the Anatomy of Discipline The Birth of the Vernacular Public Sphere Conversion 3 Social Reform, Lawmaking, and the Origins of the Parsi Theatre Persian Myth Traditionalists Rational Amusement and Shakespeare Women Law The Parsi Panchayat The Culture of Charity The Ruin of Reform 4 Corporeal Discipline The Persian Warrior Performed The Origins of the First Professional Parsi Theatre Troupe: The Victoria Nāṭak Maṇḍalī (Victoria Theatrical Company) The Parsi Theatre’s First Playwrights Aryanism Pan-Zoroastrianism Part II Re-Enchantment 5 Science, Secular Mythology, and the Professionalization of the Parsi Theatre Technology A Pedagogy of Wonder Mesmerism The Talesmātī Khel (Spectacular Play) Competition and Class The First Hindustani Play of the Parsi Stage The Inception of Cultural Nationalism The Commercialization of the Parsi Theatre Parsi–Muslim Animosity The Parsi–Muslim Riots of 1874 6 The Expansion of the Parsi Theatre Touring North India The Prince of Wales in India The Growth of the Victoria Nāṭak Maṇḍalī Delhi and Jaipur Regulations Parsi Theatre in Southeast Asia The Victoria Theatrical Company in Burma The Victoria Theatrical Company in England Part III Revolution 7 The Reformers in Need of Reforming The Society for the Amelioration of the Drama The First Hindu Mythological Play Women and/as Nationhood Communalism and the Theatre The Social Drama The Parsi Girl of the Period 8 Race-Thinking and the Parsi Social Drama The Parsi Theatre’s First Actress The Pārsī Nāṭak Mandalī (Parsi Theatrical Company) The Alfred Nāṭak Mandalī (Alfred Theatrical Company) ‘Is a Parsi a Native of India?’ Actresses 9 Conclusion Correction to: The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage Correction to: R. D. Nicholson, The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage, Transnational Theatre Histories, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65836-6 Bibliography Index