This book is a fascinating historical account of the humans, animals and objects in the circus industry in India spanning over the last hundred and fifty years. It explores in detail a wide range of amazing tales from the evolution and blooming of circus acrobatics in the early twentieth century Malabar to the exciting legal battles following the ban of training and performance of wild animals and children from the circus ring in the twenty first century.
This book is a fascinating historical account of the humans, animals and objects in the circus industry in India spanning over the last hundred and fifty years. It explores in detail a wide range of amazing tales from the evolution and blooming of circus acrobatics in the early twentieth century Malabar to the exciting legal battles following the ban of training and performance of wild animals and children from the circus ring in the twenty first century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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
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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