The following are a select list of books on dance and theatre. Please click on Details at the end of the title to see the complete table of contents and excerpts from the jacket/preface. All books are in hardcover unless specified pbk (for paper back edition)
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Indian Drama in Retrospect/introduction by Jayant Kastuar. Guragaon, Hope India, 2007, 412 p., $50. ISBN 81-7871-107-9.  Details No. 57033

The Theatre According to the Natyasastra of Bharata/R.P. Kulkarni. Reprint. New Delhi, Kanishka Pub., 2008, 132 p., 4 black and white plates, 42 figs., $25. ISBN 81-85475-81-4.  Details No. 56667  

Acinpakhi Infinity : Indigenous Theatre of Bangladesh/Syed Jamil Ahmed. Dhaka, The University Press, 2000, xxii, 375 p., plates, figs, $50. ISBN 984-05-1462-8. Details No. 44204

Appreciating Bharatanatyam/Vidya Bhavani Suresh. Chennai, Skanda Pub., 2006, 388 p., photographs, $80 (pbk).  Details  No. 49736  

Ashish Khokar's Attendance : The Dance Annual of India 2003-04/edited by Shanta Serbjeet Singh. New Delhi, Ekah-Printways, 2004, 100 p., photographs, $28. ISBN 81-901078-8.  Details No. 38916

Aspects of Abhinaya/Kalanidhi Narayanan. Reprint. Chennai, The Alliance Company, 1998, 92 p., photographs, $12 (pbk). Details No. 40301

Attendance : The Dance Annual of India 2006-7/Ashish Mohan Khokar. Kolkata, EKAH Printways, 2007, 108 p., ills., $30. ISBN 81-901078-X. Details No. 50257

Bengali Drama, Vol. I : From the Late Eighteenth Century to 1900/Gita Chakravarty. Kolkata, Firma KLM Private Limited, 2005, xv, 119 p., $15 (Vol. I). ISBN 81-7102-119-0. Details No. 40068

Beyond Performing Art and Culture : Politico-Socio Aspects/V.P. Dhananjayan. New Delhi, B.R. Rhythms, 2007, xviii, 314 p., ills, $60. ISBN 81-88827-08-8. Details No. 48592

Bhaava Niroopanna/Kanak Rele. Mumbai, Nalanda Dance Research Centre, 1996, x, 141 p., photographs, $28 (pbk). Details No. 40317

Bharatanatyam/Ashish Mohan Khokar. New Delhi, Rupa & Co., 2002, 80 p., photographs, $22. ISBN 81-7167-814-9. [Eternal India Series]   Details No. 29519

Bharata Natyam : Du Temple a La Scene/Raghunath Manet. Pondicherry, Tala Sruti, 1999, 156 p., tables, $11 (pbk).  Details No. 45500

Bharata Natyam : From Temple to Theatre/Anne-Marie Gaston. 1996, 403 p., $40. Details No. 11793

Bharatanatyam : How to... : Complete Dance Units (Adavus) Performed with Syllables, Carnatic Notes and Instruments (DVD)/Jayalakshmi Eshwar. New Delhi, BRPC, 2007, $50. Details No. 52871

Bharatanatyam : How to... : Complete Dance Units (Adavus) Rendered with Syllables, Carnatic Notes and Instruments (CD)/Jayalakshmi Eshwar. New Delhi, BRPC, 2007, $40. Details No. 52870

Bharatanatyam : How to…/Jayalakshmi Eshwar. Delhi, B.R. Pub., 2002, xii, 348 p., photographs, $72. ISBN 81-7646-235-7. Details No. 28053

Bharatanatyam : An In-Depth Study/Saroja Vaidyanathan. New Delhi, Ganesa Natyalaya, 1996, viii, 192 p., 236 mudras, 67 Col. photographs, $30. Details No. 56142

Bharatanatyam/Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan. New Delhi, Bookwise, 2002, 176 p., photographs, $85 (pbk). ISBN 81-87330-02-3. Details No. 28584

Bharata Natyam/Sunil Kothari. Revised edition. Bombay, Marg, 2000, 232 p, $66. ISBN 81-85026-36-X. Details No. 20154

Bharatanatyam : Varnam: The Sum and Substance/Priyadarsini Govind (2 Video CD, Vol. 1 & 2). Chennai, Swathi Soft Solutions, 2004, $60 (set).   Details No. 49732

Boats of Bengal : Eighteenth Century Portraits by Balthazar Solvyns/Robert L. Hardgrave. New Delhi, Manohar, 2001, vi, 134 p., $28. ISBN 81-7304-358-2. Details No. 25060 

Bonding... A Memoir/Vyjayantimala Bali and Jyoti Sabharwal. New Delhi, Stellar Pub., 2007, xvi, 410 p., illus., $40. ISBN 81-904559-1-6.   Details No. 52549

Chidambaram Home of Nataraja/edited by Vivek Nanda with George Michell. New Delhi, Marg, 2004, 140 p., photographs, $94. ISBN  81-85026-64-5.  Details No. 36686

Classical Dances of India/Saroja Vaidyanathan. New Delhi, Ganesa Natyalaya, 2004, 156 p., photographs, $70. Details No. 41249

A Comprehensive Dictionary of Bharatanatyam/Vidya Bhavani Suresh. Chennai, A Skanda Pub., 2004, 108 p., illus., $11 (pbk).  Details No. 38715

Concise Dictionary of Indian Theatre/M.L. Varadpande. New Delhi, Abhinav Publications, 2007, 346 p., $55. ISBN 81-7017-440-6.  Details No. 53583

Contemporary Indian Drama : Astride Two Traditions : Festschrift for Professor Santosh Gupta/edited by Urmil Talwar and Bandana Chakrabarty. New Delhi, Rawat, 2005, xi, 284 p., $33. ISBN 81-7033-935-9.  Details No. 42311

Contemporary Indian Dramatists/edited by Shubha Tiwari. New Delhi, Atlantic, 2007, x, 130 p., $20. ISBN 81-269-0871-4.  Details No. 54514

Contemporary Theatre : East and North-East/Biswajit Sinha. New Delhi, Raj Pub., 2008, 462 p., illus., $70. ISBN 81-86208-59-5. [Encyclopaedia of Indian Theatre-9].  Details No. 55442

Cultural Rhythms in Emotions, Narratives and Dance/Nita Mathur. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 2002, xii, 225 p., plates, figures, maps, $30. ISBN 81-215-0993-9. Details No. 27396

Dance Dialects of India/Ragini Devi. Reprint. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2002, 235 p., plates, $55. ISBN 81-208-0674-3. Details No. 37511

Dance Gestures : Mirror of Expressions: Sanskrit Text with English Translation of Nandikesvara's Abhinayadarpanam/P. Ramachandrasekhar. Mumbai, Giri Trading Agency, 2007, 192 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-7950-401-8.  Details No. 50554

The Dance of the Sarus : Essays of a Wandering Naturalist/S. Theodore Baskaran. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, xvii, 240 p., $25. ISBN 019-564-9664.  Details No. 39372

The Dancing Phenomenon : Birju Maharaj/Leela Venkataraman. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2001, 16 p., $11. ISBN 81-7436-186-3.  Details No. 25667 

The Dancing Phenomenon : Kelucharan Mohapatra/Sharon Lowen. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2001, 16 p., $11. ISBN 81-7436-179-0.  Details No. 25665

Dancing in the Family : An Unconventional Memoir of Three Women/Sukanya Rahman. New Delhi, Rupa & Co., 2004, xv, 158 p., $12 (pbk). ISBN 81-291-0594-2.  Details No. 39444

Devadasis and Bharatha Natyam in Tamilnadu/J. Surya Narayana Murthy. Chennai, Ulaga Thamizhar Pathippakam, 2005, 128 p., $11 (pbk). Details No. 45600

Dhananjayan on Indian Classical Dance/V.P. Dhananjayan. Delhi, B.R. Rhythms, 2004, x, 118 p., Photographs, $42. ISBN 81-88827-04-5.  Details No. 36503

Dictionary of Music, Dance and Drama/Biswajit Sinha. Delhi, Raj, 2003, viii, 384 p., $44. ISBN 81-86208-24-0.  Details No. 29480

Documentation of Performing Arts/edited by L. Annapoorna. Delhi, Sundeep, 2000, xix, 225 p., $33. ISBN 81-7574-092-2.DetailsNo. 17908   

Drama Contemporary : India/edited by Erin B. Mee. Reprint. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002, x, 361 p., photographs, $22. ISBN 019-566429-9.   Details No. 29486

Dramatic Concepts : Greek and Indian : A Study of the Poetics and the Natyasastra/Bharat Gupt. Reprint. New Delhi, D.K. Printworld, 2006, xviii, 295 p., $31. ISBN 81-246-0025-2.  Details No. 42260

Encyclopaedia of Indian Dances/Nirupama Chaturvedi. New Delhi, Anmol, 2007, viii, 328 p., illus., $95. ISBN 81-261-3119-5.  Details No. 52755

Encyclopaedia of Indian Theatre : Vol. 1: Bhasa/Biswajit Sinha and Ashok K. Choudhury. Delhi, 2000, 240 p., $44 (Vol. I). ISBN 81-86208-11-9.Details No. 15250

Encyclopaedia of Indian Theatre : Vol. 2 : Major Sanskrit Dramatists/Biswajit Sinha. Delhi, Raj Publications, 2002, 476 p., $105 (Vol. II). ISBN 81-86208-21-6. Details No. 22325

Encyclopaedia of World Great Dramatists/edited by Henry Andrews. New Delhi, Anmol Pub., 2006, 4 Vols., xxiv, 1196 p., $180 (set) ISBN 81-261-2903-4.  Details No. 46914

Essence of Nattuvangam : Bharathanatyam Guide Book/Kamala Rani. Chennai, Kamala Rani,1997, x, 45 p., $11 (pbk).  Details No. 48748

Evolution of Music, Dance and Drama/G.V.S. Bharadhwaj. Secunderabad, G.V.S. Bharadhwaj, 2005, iv, 74 p., $12 (pbk).   Details No. 40466

Fall of Mevar : A Drama in Five Acts/Dwijendra Lal Roy. Translated by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya and Dilip Kumar Roy. Reprint. New Delhi, Reliance, 2002, 99 p., $11. ISBN 81-7510-135-0.  Details No. 23876    

Flowering of Indian Drama : Growth and Development/edited by K. Venkata Reddy and R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi, Prestige, 2004, 199 p., $22. ISBN 81-7551-152-4.  Details No. 38292

Folk Ballet of India/Rajendra Jain. Delhi, B.R. Publishing, 2001, ix, 108 p., $66. ISBN 81-7646-201-2. Details No. 21526

Folk Dance Traditions of India/Shovana Narayan. Gurgaon, Shubhi Pub., 2004, ix, 272 p., photographs, $110. ISBN 81-87226-93-5. Details No. 40248

Folk Dances of Chamba/Kamal Prashad Sharma. New Delhi, Indus, 2004, 184 p., plates, $66. ISBN 81-7387-166-3.  Details No. 36501

Folk Theatre/Biswajit Sinha. Delhi, Raj, 2004, vii, 528 p., $83. ISBN 81-86208-35-6. [Encyclopaedia of Indian Theatre-6]  Details No. 36328

Gaudiya Dance : A Collection of Seminar Papers/edited by Pallab Sengupta, Manabendu Banerjee and Mahua Mukherjee. Kolkata, The Asiatic Society, 2005, ix, 120 p., illus., $25.  Details No. 44153

The Glory of Indian Heritage/edited by K. Mahadevan, V.K. Madhavan Kutty, Kiran Ramachandran N. and Joseph Ouseparampil. 1998, xii, 471 p., $40.  Details No. 13075

A Handbook on Natya Sastra/Vasanta Vedam. Chennai, Vasanta Vedam, 2003, x, 177 p., $11 (pbk). Details No. 31129

Hastha Prayogaah : Vocabulary of Hand Gestures in Bharatanatyam (with Audio CD and Instructional DVD)/Jayalakshmi Eshwar. New Delhi, Jayalakshmi Eshwar, 2006, xx, 254 p., ills., $175 (Includes delivery by DHL within 3-5 days). ISBN 81-7525-786-5.  Details No. 49296

A Historical and Cultural Study of the Natyasastra of Bharata/Pande Anupa. , 1991, viii, 340 p., $21. Details No. 6639

History of Indian Theatre : Classical Theatre, Vol. III/M.L. Varadpande. New Delhi, Abhinav, 2005, 343 p., plates, $80. ISBN 81-7017-430-9.  Details No. 39715

History of Indian Theatre--Loka Ranga : Panorama of Indian Folk Theatre/M.L. Varadpande. 1992, 330 p., 103 b & w plates, 26 colour plates, bibliography, $86. Details No. 6908

History of Indian Theatre/M.L. Varadpande. New Delhi, Abhinav, 297 p., illus., $33. ISBN  81-7017-221-7.  Details No. 36320

History of Tamizh's Dance/S. Raghuraman. Translated by Lakshmi Ramaswamy. Chennai, Nandini Pathippagam, 2007, xii, 266 p., $17 (pbk). Details No. 53009

Incredible India : Classical Dances/text by Sonal Mansingh. Photographs by Avinash Pasricha. New Delhi, Wisdom Tree, 2007, 102 p., photographs, $39. ISBN 81-8328-067-6. Details No. 49908

Incredible India : Traditional Theatres/H.S. Shiva Prakash. New Delhi, Wisdom Tree, 2007, 102 p., ills., $39. ISBN 81-8328-075-7. Details No. 49909

Indian Classical Dance : Tradition in Transition/Leela Venkataraman and Avinash Pasricha. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2002, 144 p., photographs, $88. ISBN 81-7436-216-9. Details No. 29932

Indian Classical Dances/Shovana Narayan. Gurgaon, Shubhi, 2005, 240 p., illus., $160. ISBN 81-8290-023-9.  Details No. 43080

Indian Music and An Enchanting Amalgam Of Dance/Vasanthy Krishna Rao. New Delhi, Sanjay Prakashan, 2006, xii, 182 p, $22. ISBN 81-7453-245-5. Details No. 46387

Indian Performing Arts a Mosaic/Utpal K. Banerjee. New Delhi, Harman, 2006, vii, 220 p., ills., $85. ISBN 81-86622-75-6. Details No. 45967

The Indian Stage/Hemendra Nath Das Gupta. Reprint. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 2002, 4 Volumes (bound in two books), lvi, 1178 p., $72. ISBN 81-215-1062-7. Details No. 27735

Indian Theatre and Dance Traditions/Shovana Narayan. New Delhi, Harman, 2004, viii, 168 p., $53. ISBN 81-86622-61-6.   Details No. 34409

India's Dances : Their History, Technique and Repertoire/Reginald Massey. New Delhi, Abhinav, 2004, 316 p., maps, $33. ISBN 81-7017-434-1.  Details No. 35056

India's Kathak Dance - Past, Present, Future/Reginald Massey. New Delhi, Abhinav, 1999, 180 p.,  illus., $17. ISBN  81-7017-374-3.  Details No. 36276

Into the World of Kutiyattam : With the Legendary Ammannur Madhava Chakyar/G. Venu. Thrissur, Natana Kairali, 2002, 187 p., plates, $20. Details No. 40302

Jamini : An International Arts Quarterly, Vol. 3. No. 1. March 2006 and No. 2. June 2006 (Annual Subscription)/edited Luva Nahid Choudhury. Dhaka, Abul Khair on Behalf of ICE Media Ltd., 2007, 240 p., $120 (pbk). [To be completed in four issues].  Details No. 51450

Kadambam : Compositions of Suguna Purushothaman. Chennai, Sunadam, 1995, 143 p., $15 (pbk).  Details No. 40467

Karanas : Common Dance Codes of India and Indonesia/ Padma Subhrahmanyam. Chennai, Nrithyodaya, 2003,  3 vols., xxxiv, 709 p., tables, figs., $231 (set). Details No. 34895

Kathak Sagar/Bharti Gupta. New Delhi, Radha Pub., 2004, viii, 221 p., $21. ISBN 81-7487-343-0.  Details No. 38731

Kathak : The World of Shovana Narayan/Kamal K. Mishra. New Delhi, Kanishka, 2005, 200 p., photographs, $55. ISBN 81-7391-725-6.  Details No. 43230

Kathakali Dance-Drama Where Gods and Demons Come to Play/Phillip B. Zarrilli. London, 2000, xv, 260 p., figs., $42. Details No. 15335

Krishnattam/Martha Bush Ashton-Sikora and Robert P. Sikora. 1993, xiv, 185 p., plates, ill. (some col.), $30. Details No. 9056

Kuchipudi Adavu Samu : An Illustrated Book of Dance Notation for Kuchipudi Dance/compiled, illustrated and explained by Rathna Kumar. Chennai, Anjali Centre for Performing Arts, 2007, 52 p., $15 (pbk).  Details No. 50555

Kuchipudi : Indian Classical Dance Art/Sunil Kothari and Avinash Pasricha. Delhi, Abhinav, 2001, 247 p., 166 colour illustrations, 221 black and white photographs, $105. ISBN 81-7017-359-0. Details No. 20229

Kuchipudi Kalapas : An Odyssey Rediscovered/P. Rama Devi. Secunderabad, Patinjarayil Pub., 2005, xiii, 105 p., $11 (pbk).  Details No. 41104

A Kuravanci of Risivintam/edited by M. Maruthamuthu. English Rendering by M.S. Venkatachalam. Chennai, Institute of Asian Studies, 2005, 426 p., $40 (pbk). ISBN 81-87892-25-0.  Details No. 50733

Laghu Bharatham, Vol. I. Reprint. Chennai, Shree Bharatalaya, 2002, xxxi, 292 p., $12. Details No. 40335

Laghu Bharatham, Vol. II. Chennai, Shree Bharatalaya, 1997,  xxxi, 356 p., $18. Details No. 40469

Laghu Bharatham, Vol. III. Reprint. Chennai, Shree Bharatalaya, 2000, xxxii, 319 p., $15. Details No. 40470

The Language of Kathakali : Notations of 874 Hand Gestures/G. Venu. Trichur, Natana Kairali, 2000, x, 327 p., $45. Details No. 40343

The Life and Times of Lameri : The Queen of Ethnic Dance/Usha Venkateswaran. New Delhi, Aryan Books International, 2005, xv, 114 p., plates, $50. ISBN 81-7305-292-1.  Details No. 40897

Living Traditions of Natyasastra/edited by C. Rajendran. Delhi, New Bharatiya Book Corporation, 2002, vi, 190 p., 16 Colour photographs, $61. ISBN 81-87418-46-X. Details No. 24950

The Mahabharata in Kathakali Dance Drama/edited by N.K. Singh. Translated by David Bolland. New Delhi, Global Vision Pub., 2006, viii, 134 p., $25. ISBN 81-8220-181-0.  Details No. 48168

Manipuri Dances/E. Nilkantha Singh. 1997, xi, 143 p., $17. Details No. 12802

Millennium Glimpses of Indian Performing Arts/Utpal K. Banerjee. Gurgaon, Shubhi Pub., 2007, 358 p., illus., $130. ISBN 81-8290-092-1.  Details No. 48633

Modern Indian Plays, Vol. I/edited by Chandrasekhar Kambar. New Delhi, National School of Drama, 2000, xxxi, 640 p., $55 (Vol. I).  Details No. 39649

Modern Indian Plays, Vol. 2/edited by Chandrasekhar Kambar. New Delhi, National School of Drama, 2001, xxiii, 587 p., $55 (Vol. II).  Details No. 39650

The Mokshya Sutra/Manjushree Panda. Bhubaneswar, Rudrakshya, 2004, xii, 94 p., photographs, $20. Details No. 40520

Movement and Mimesis : The Idea of Dance in the Sanskritic Tradition/Mandakranta Bose. New Delhi, D.K. Printworld, 2007, xii, 332 p., $36. ISBN 81-246-0421-5.  Details No. 53991

Movement in Stills : The Dance and Life of Kumudini Lakhia/Reena Shah. Ahmedabad, Mapin, 2005, 320 p., $31. ISBN 81-88204-42-0.  Details No. 45793

Music and Dance in the Thanjavur Big Temple/Gnaanaa Kulendran. Trichy, Krishni Pathippakam, 2004, xviii, 148 p., figs., $11 (pbk).  Details No. 36520

My Body, My Wisdom : A Handbook of Creative Dance Therapy/Tripura Kashyap. New Delhi, Penguin, 2005, xvi, 180 p., $15 (pbk). ISBN 014303354-9.  Details No. 41002

Naatya Bala Bodhini (Basic Viniyogas in English with meanings) (Vol. I)/K. Swarnambigai. Reprint. Chennai, BGP Peripheral Services, 2002, 64 p., $11 (Vol. I) (pbk).  Details No. 31135

Nangiar Koothu : The Classical Dance-Theatre of the Nangiar-s/Nirmala Paniker. Trichur, Natana Kairali, 1992, 110 p., $11 (pbk). Details No. 40303

Nartananirnaya of Pandarika Vitthala, Vol. I/edited and translated with commentary by R. Sathyanarayana. New Delhi, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts with Motilal Banarsidass Pub., 1994, xiv, 358 p., $40. ISBN 81-208-1217-9. [Kalamulasastra Series - 17].  Details No. 56171

Nartananirnaya of Pandarika Vitthala, Volume III/edited by R. Sathyanarayana. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1998, xii, 558 p., $60. ISBN 81-208-1219-0. [Kalamulasastra series 19].  Details No. 56173

Nartananirnaya of Pandarika Vitthala, Vol. II/edited and translated with commentary by R. Sathyanarayana. New Delhi, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts with Motilal Banarsidass Pub., 1996, xii, 492 p., $55. ISBN 81-208-1218-2 [Kalamulasastra Series - 18]. Details No. 56172

Nattuvangam : 100 Roopaka Thalam Theermanams/Kamala Rani. Chennai, Kamala Rani, 1997, x, 100 p., $11 (pbk).  Details No. 48747

Natyasastra of Bharatamuni : Text, Commentary of Abhinava Bharati by Abhinavaguptacarya and English Translation/edited by Pushpendra Kumar. Translated by M.M. Ghosh. Delhi, New Bharatiya Book Corporation, 2006, 3 Vols., 1614 p., $160 (set). ISBN 81-8315-044-6.  Details No. 52775

The Natya Sastra of Bharatamuni/translated into English by A Board of Scholars. Reprint. Delhi, Satguru, 2000, xxiv, 547 p., $28. ISBN 81-7030-134-3. Details No. 23303

New Dimensions in Indian Music, Dance and Drama/edited by L. Annapoorna. 1998, 337 p., plates, $52.  Details No. 12881

Nirmalam : The Genius of S Sarada/edited by Anita R Ratnam. Chennai, Arangham Trust, 2005, 190 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81 900685-1-2. Details No. 45599

The Nrtyavinoda of Manasollasa : A Study/Hema Govindarajan. New Delhi, Harman, 2001, xv, 177 p., $33. ISBN 81-86622-40-3. Details No. 21637

Odissi : The Dance Divine/Ranjana Gauhar. Photographs by Dushyant Parasher. New Delhi, Niyogi Offset, 2007, 144 p., $70. ISBN 81-89738-17-8. Details No. 50047

Odissi : An Indian Classical Dance Form/Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi and Ahalya Hejmadi Patnaik. New Delhi, Aryan Books International, 2007, xii,140 p., figs., $60. ISBN 81-7305-324-3.  Details No. 50357

Odissi : What, Why and How... Evolution, Revival and Technique/Madhumita Raut. Delhi, B.R. Rhythms, 2007, viii, 124 p., photos, $70. ISBN 81-8882710-X.  Details No. 49498

The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre/edited by Ananda Lal. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2004, xx, 563 p., illus., $105. ISBN 0 19 564446 8. Details No. 37771

The Parsi Theatre : Its Origins and Development/Somnath Gupt. Translated and edited by Kathryn Hansen. New Delhi, Seagull Books, 2005, xiv, 223 p., $25. ISBN 81-7046-273-8.  Details No. 44842

Performers and Their Arts : Folk, Popular and Classical Genres in a Changing India/edited by Simon Charsley and Laxmi Narayan Kadeker. New Delhi, Routledge, 2006, 332 p., pictures, $36. ISBN 0-415-40113-5.  Details No. 50291

Photo Biography of Rukmini Devi/Sunil Kothari. Chennai, The Kalakshetra Foundation, 2004, ix, 226 p., photographs, $61.  Details No. 38091

The Plays of Girish Karnad and Tradition/Manoj K. Pandey. New Delhi, Adhyayan, 2007, x, 110 p., $17. ISBN 81-8435-025-8.  Details No. 54111

Poetics, Plays, and Performances : The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre/Vasudha Dalmia. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2006, xiv, 366 p., photographs, $37. ISBN 0-19-567473-1.  Details No. 43130

Popular Classical Dances of India/Vidya Bhavani Suresh. Chennai, Skanda Pub., 2005, 164 p., photographs, $28 (pbk). Details No. 40229

Rabindranath Tagore/Biswajit Sinha. Delhi, Raj, 2003, 2 Parts, xx, 688 p., ills., $138. ISBN 81-86208-29-1. [Encyclopaedia of Indian Theatre –5]. Details No. 32668

Ramayana Balkanda : Bharatanatyam Dance: 2 Parts, CD Rom. New Delhi, Centre for Cultural Resources and Training, $26. Details No. 22214

The Ramayana in Kathakali Dance Drama/edited by N.K. Singh. Translated by David Bolland. New Delhi, Global Vision Pub., 2006, x, 154 p., $28. ISBN 81-8220-182-9.  Details No. 48167

Rasa : Performing the Divine in India/Susan L. Schwartz. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass Pub., 2008, xviii, 118 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-208-3262-6.  Details No. 55679

Rasalila : A Musical Study of Religious Drama in Vraja/Selina Thielemann. 1998, 184 p., col. plates, $106. Details No. 12732

Rukmini Devi Arundale : Birth Centenary Volume/edited by Shakuntala Ramani. Chennai, Kalakshetra Foundation, 2003, xxvi, 298 p., photographs,  $50 (pbk).   Details No. 31705

Rukmini Devi : Bharata Natya. Chennai, Kalakshetra Pub., 2003, 284 p., photographs, $66.  Details No. 34682

Rukmini Devi Arundale : Centenary Valedictory Volume/Shakuntala Ramani. Chennai, Kalakshetra Foundation, 2004, 112 p., illus., $20 (pbk). Details No. 54126

Sanskrit Theatre : Encyclopaedia of Indian Theatre-7/Biswajit Sinha. New Delhi, Raj Pub., 2005, iv, 898 p., illus., $95. ISBN 81-86208-38-0.  Details No. 41944

The Science of Bharata Natyam, 2nd edition/Saroja Vaidyanathan. Delhi, Kanishka, 2000, 78 p., photo, Illus., $28. ISBN 81-7391-388-9. Details No. 18512

Seven Seas and Seven Mountains, Volume II. Mirrors and Gestures: Conversations with Women Dancers/C.S. Lakshmi. New Delhi, Kali for Women, 2003, liii, 472 p., $28. ISBN 81-86706-15-1. Details No. 32189

Siva Darsan/Vamanan. Chennai, Tattvaloka, 2005, 214 p., ills., $25 (pbk). Details No. 41242

So Many Journeys by Bharatanatyam Dancer/Geeta Chandran. New Delhi, Niyogi Offset Pvt. Ltd., 2005, 221 p., photographs, $160. ISBN 81-901936-0-0.  Details No. 39516

Some Dancers of India/Susheela Misra. 1992, 232 p., 87 plates, $53.  Details No. 6954

Some Selected Speeches and Writings of Rukmini Devi Arundale/compiled and edited by Shakuntala Ramani. Chennai, Kalakshetra Foundation, 2003, 2 Vols., 547 p., $55 (set).  Details No. 31704

South Indian Theatre : Encyclopaedia of Indian Theatre - 8/Biswajit Sinha. New Delhi, Raj Pub., 2007, xii, 852 p., ills., $90. ISBN 81-86208-54-2.  Details No. 50529

Speaking of Dance : The Indian Critique/Mandakranta Bose. New Delhi, D.K. Printworld, 2001, vii, 144 p., $36. ISBN: 81-246-0172-0. Details No. 21445

Splendour of the Classical Dances of Andhra Pradesh/Varalakshmi Janapathy. Delhi, Kalpaz, 2007, 454 p., figs., photographs, $85. ISBN 81-7835-507-8.  Details No. 51101

Splendours of Indian Dance (Forms-Theory-Practice)/V. Raghavan. Chennai, Dr. V. Raghavan Centre for Performing Arts, 2004, x, 330 p., $25.  Details No. 49735

Staging Resistance Plays by Women in Translation/edited Tutun Mukherjee. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2005, xi, 551 p., $33. ISBN 019-567008-6.  Details No. 39137

Stigmas of the Tamil Stage : An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India/Susan Seizer. Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2005, xxii, 442 p., maps, figs., plates, $45 (pbk). ISBN 81-7046-321-1.  Details No. 50375

The Story of a Dance : Bharata Natyam/Krishna Sahai. New Delhi, Indialog Pub., 2003, 238 p., figs., $17 (pbk). ISBN 81-87981-51-2. Details No. 34003

Swinging Syllables Aesthetics of Kathak Dance/Sushil Kumar Saxena. New Delhi, Hope India Publications, 2006, $26. ISBN 81-7871-088-9. Details No. 45671

Tantra - Mantra - Yantra in Dance : An Exposition of Kathaka/Ranjana Srivastava. New Delhi, D.K. Printworld, 2004, xx, 140 p., plates, $42. ISBN 81-246-0268-9. Details No. 37579

Theatre Beyond the Threshold : Colonialism, Nationalism and the Bengali Stage 1905-1947/Minoti Chatterjee. New Delhi, Indialog, 2004, vi, 269 p., $17 (pbk). ISBN 81-87981-63-6.  Details No. 36111

Tibetan Religious Dances : Tibetan Text and Annotated Translation of the 'Chams Yig/edited by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf. Reprint. Delhi, Pilgrims Book, 1997, viii, 320 p., plates, $30. ISBN 81-7624-006-0.  Details No. 45496

Tribal Dances of India/edited by Robin D. Tribhuwan and Preeti R. Tribhuwan. 1999, xviii, 417 p., plates, $106. ISBN 81-7141-443-5. Details No. 14250

Tyagaraja Vachanamrita : Popular Compositions of Saint Tyagaraja (With Text, Transliteration and Translation)/S. Krishna Murthy and T.N. Padmanabhan. Bangalore, Vijaya College of Music, 2003, viii, 315 p., $17 (pbk). Details No. 34675

Understanding Bharata Natyam/Mrinalini Sarabhai. Reprint. Ahmedabad, Darpana Pub., 2005, vii, 112 p., plates, $11 (pbk). Details No. 40342

Understanding Kathakali : Demystifying Fine Arts - Vol. 18/Vidya Bhavani Suresh. Chennai, Skanda Publication, 2004, 35 p., $11 (pbk).  Details No. 35560

What is Kuchipudi?/Vidya Bhavani Suresh. Chennai, Skanda Pub., 2003, 28 p., photographs, $11(pbk). [Demystifying Fine Arts - Volume 16] Details No. 33986

What is Mohiniyattam?/Vidya Bhavani Suresh. Chennai, Skanda Pub., 2003, 28 p., photographs, $11 (pbk). [Demystifying Fine Arts - Volume 15] Details No. 33985

What is Odissi?/Vidya Bhavani Suresh. Chennai, Skanda Publication, 2004, 28 p., $11 (pbk).  Details No. 35561

The World of Koochipoodi Dance/Swapnasundari. Gurgaon, Shubhi, 2005, 188 p., tables, plates, $132. ISBN 81-8290-022-0.  Details No. 38874

Yaksagana/K. Shivarama Karanth. 1997, 252 p., col. plates, line drawings, $30. Details No. 12526

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