Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Conspectus of Bengali Theatre outside Bengal. 3. Binodini Dasi, the Prima Dona of Bengali stage in Delhi. 4. Natyacharya Sisir Kumars trip to Delhi. 5. Bengali Theatre in Delhi: early history. 6. Enactment of Phalguni by Delhites in 1925: scenarios in twenties. 7. Bengali club Kashmere Gate 1928. 8. New Delhi Bengali Club Kali Bari 1933. 9. Audit office Indian stores Department (AGFRS) recreation Club Mid-1930s. 10. Milan Samiti. 11. Other Theatre happenings thirties. 12. Forties theatre groups. 13. Fifties. 14. 14. Sixties. 15. Seventies. 16. Eighties. 17. Nineties. 18. Theatre happenings 2000-2008. 19. Theatre groups 21st century. 20. Conclusion. Appendices.

Series X quickly establish itself as the first ever standard reference book on Bengali Theatre outside Bengal. The resource book plays a major role in familiarizing the reader for the first time with Bengali Theatre from a part or parts of the country which even Bengal is not familiar with. A pioneering and comprehensive account and documentation of Bengali stage which flourished chiefly in Delhi with an overview of dramatic efforts in other states of India. It urges that the whole of India should be the canvas of todays Bengali Theatre.

The treatise will definately fulfil a long felt need amongst Theatre connoisseurs as the encyclopedia offer an authentic historical awareness to the performances of Bengali dramas in the last millenium.

Copiously illustrated with invaluable and rare photographs this is a concise compendium addressed to the Theatre historians critics, art lovers students of drama and cultural studies. (jacket)