Rimli Bhattacharya
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rimli Bhattacharya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rimli |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhattacharya |
| SIGNATURE | BHATTACHARYA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Public Women in British India
This book foregrounds the subjectivity of ‘acting women’ amidst violent debates on femininity and education, livelihood and labour, sexuality and marriage. It looks at the emergence of the stage actress as an artist and an ideological construct at critical phases of performance practice in British India. The focus here is on Calcutta, considered the ‘second city of the Empire’ and a nodal point in global trade circuits. Each chapter offers new wa…
Promiscuous Spaces and Economies of Entertainment
This article seeks to destabilise the categories of the regional, national and foreign by juxtaposing several strands of performance history in colonial India. The first of these is the strong presence of military theatricals in the subcontinent; the second is the continuous passage of girls and women often as solo performers or as a couple, through British India and Ceylon, eastwards and westwards; and the third, the growth of new forms of verna…
Chosen Families and Self-Transformations in Dhan Gopal Mukerji's Books for Children, 1920s–1930s
In the Indian subcontinent, the understanding of ‘the family’ in numerous narrative traditions has always extended into relationships with non-humans, with a pivotal emphasis on the guru-shishya (preceptor-disciple) relationship. This paper focuses on the highly popular English-language ‘juvenile fiction’ of Dhan Gopal Mukerji to suggest how he reconfigured these narrative traditions for a primarily non-Indian audience in the 1920s–30s. The paper…
The Policy—Practice Nexus in English Classrooms in Delhi, Johannesburg, and London
This article makes a methodological contribution to investigating the policy—practice nexus in the English classroom. It looks beyond language to offer a multimodal case study analysis of English classrooms in three cities: Delhi, Johannesburg, and London. The article shows how policies mediated by the agencies of the state, the school, the English department, and individual teachers are inflected and refracted through the textual cycle to positi…
The nautee in 'the second city of the Empire
In this article I shall be bringing together several otherwise disparate histories of nineteenth- century Bengal: of migrant women turning to some form of prostitution; of traditions of women performers active in Calcutta from the eighteenth century; and finally , that of representation and female impersonation among the upper-class practitioners of private theatricals (1830s-60s). With the induction of women as actresses in 1873, there appears t…
My story and my life as an actress
One of the earliest actresses of 19th-century Public Theatre in Bengal, Binodini Dasi was also a powerful writer with a voice of her own. Her autobiographical writings, Amar Katha (1912) and Amar Abhinetri Jiban (1924-25), along with her poetry, speak of a woman who wanted much more than contemporary society was willing to grant her. A founder member of the first actor-owned theatre, Binodini was never allowed to forget her prostitute origins or …
Salman Rushdie
Chosen Families and Self-Transformations in Dhan Gopal Mukerji's Books for Children, 1920s–1930s
In the Indian subcontinent, the understanding of ‘the family’ in numerous narrative traditions has always extended into relationships with non-humans, with a pivotal emphasis on the guru-shishya (preceptor-disciple) relationship. This paper focuses on the highly popular English-language ‘juvenile fiction’ of Dhan Gopal Mukerji to suggest how he reconfigured these narrative traditions for a primarily non-Indian audience in the 1920s–30s. The paper…
The nautee in 'the second city of the Empire
In this article I shall be bringing together several otherwise disparate histories of nineteenth- century Bengal: of migrant women turning to some form of prostitution; of traditions of women performers active in Calcutta from the eighteenth century; and finally , that of representation and female impersonation among the upper-class practitioners of private theatricals (1830s-60s). With the induction of women as actresses in 1873, there appears t…
Salman Rushdie
My story and my life as an actress
One of the earliest actresses of 19th-century Public Theatre in Bengal, Binodini Dasi was also a powerful writer with a voice of her own. Her autobiographical writings, Amar Katha (1912) and Amar Abhinetri Jiban (1924-25), along with her poetry, speak of a woman who wanted much more than contemporary society was willing to grant her. A founder member of the first actor-owned theatre, Binodini was never allowed to forget her prostitute origins or …
The nautee in 'the second city of the Empire
In this article I shall be bringing together several otherwise disparate histories of nineteenth- century Bengal: of migrant women turning to some form of prostitution; of traditions of women performers active in Calcutta from the eighteenth century; and finally , that of representation and female impersonation among the upper-class practitioners of private theatricals (1830s-60s). With the induction of women as actresses in 1873, there appears t…
The Policy—Practice Nexus in English Classrooms in Delhi, Johannesburg, and London
This article makes a methodological contribution to investigating the policy—practice nexus in the English classroom. It looks beyond language to offer a multimodal case study analysis of English classrooms in three cities: Delhi, Johannesburg, and London. The article shows how policies mediated by the agencies of the state, the school, the English department, and individual teachers are inflected and refracted through the textual cycle to positi…
Chosen Families and Self-Transformations in Dhan Gopal Mukerji's Books for Children, 1920s–1930s
In the Indian subcontinent, the understanding of ‘the family’ in numerous narrative traditions has always extended into relationships with non-humans, with a pivotal emphasis on the guru-shishya (preceptor-disciple) relationship. This paper focuses on the highly popular English-language ‘juvenile fiction’ of Dhan Gopal Mukerji to suggest how he reconfigured these narrative traditions for a primarily non-Indian audience in the 1920s–30s. The paper…
Promiscuous Spaces and Economies of Entertainment
This article seeks to destabilise the categories of the regional, national and foreign by juxtaposing several strands of performance history in colonial India. The first of these is the strong presence of military theatricals in the subcontinent; the second is the continuous passage of girls and women often as solo performers or as a couple, through British India and Ceylon, eastwards and westwards; and the third, the growth of new forms of verna…
Public Women in British India
This book foregrounds the subjectivity of ‘acting women’ amidst violent debates on femininity and education, livelihood and labour, sexuality and marriage. It looks at the emergence of the stage actress as an artist and an ideological construct at critical phases of performance practice in British India. The focus here is on Calcutta, considered the ‘second city of the Empire’ and a nodal point in global trade circuits. Each chapter offers new wa…
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