Development Dramas: Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern India

by Dia Da Costa

Book Overview

This book uses political theatre to trace the present-day protests in West Bengal against the Left government's acquisition of agricultural land for industrialisation to decades of public protest by the rural Bengali against an accumulated dispossession of meanings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138662593
• ISBN13: 9781138662599
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"