Jumbos and Jumping Devils

Jumbos and Jumping Devils
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 : 9780190992071
ISBN-13 : 0190992077
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Download or read book Jumbos and Jumping Devils written by Nisha P.R. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jumbos and Jumping Devils is a pioneering exploration of the social history of circus in India over the last 150 years. It presents a wide variety of amazing tales ranging from the blooming and evolution of circus acrobatics in early twentieth-century Malabar to the sensational legal battles following the ban of wild animals and children from the circus ring in the twenty-first century. Alongside extensive fieldwork and interviews, the author has used memorabilia including photographs, notices, posters, letters, diaries, unpublished autobiographies, private papers, and recollections of the circus community to chronicle the hitherto untold story of the Indian circus. The book paves the way for a new sociocultural analysis of performance genres and popular culture in the subcontinent against several overlapping contexts. These include the remaking of caste and gender identities, transformation of physical cultures and bodies, interventions of the colonial and postcolonial states, and emergence of new transregional and transnational spaces.


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