Colonial Staged - Theatre in Colonial Calcutta (Enactments) -- Paperback / softback

From the late 18th century, Calcutta, first city of the British empire, has been a hub of ideas and movements of change. This study of the history of the Bengali theatre looks at the plays mounted in the city in the 18th and 19th centuries and their reception, and goes on to study the cultural efflorescence known as the "Bengal Renaissance".