Jumbos and Jumping Devils
A Social History of Indian Circus
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ISBN:
9780199496709
Publication date:
15/06/2020
Hardback
320 pages
Price: 1195.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199496709
Publication date:
15/06/2020
Hardback
320 pages
Nisha P R
This book is a fascinating historical account of the humans, animals and objects in the circus industry in India spanning over the last hundred and fifty years. It explores in detail a wide range of amazing tales from the evolution and blooming of circus acrobatics in the early twentieth century Malabar to the exciting legal battles following the ban of training and performance of wild animals and children from the circus ring in the twenty first century.
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Nisha P R
Description
Jumbos and Jumping Devils is a pioneering exploration of the social history of circus in India over the last 150 years. It presents a wide variety of amazing tales ranging from the blooming and evolution of circus acrobatics in early twentieth-century Malabar to the sensational legal battles following the ban of wild animals and children from the circus ring in the twenty-first century.
Alongside extensive fieldwork and interviews, the author has used memorabilia including photographs, notices, posters, letters, diaries, unpublished autobiographies, private papers, and recollections of the circus community to chronicle the hitherto untold story of the Indian circus.
The book paves the way for a new sociocultural analysis of performance genres and popular culture in the subcontinent against several overlapping contexts. These include the remaking of caste and gender identities, transformation of physical cultures and bodies, interventions of the colonial and postcolonial states, and emergence of new transregional and transnational spaces.
About the Author
Nisha P R received her doctorate from the University of Delhi, India. Her research was on the social history of circus and circus performances in twentieth-century south India. Her monograph The
Jumping Devils: A Tale of Circus Bodies has been published in the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Occasional Paper Series. Her writings have appeared, amongst others, in Indian Economic and Social History Review, Economic and Political Weekly, Conservation and Society, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, and Social Science Probings. She has been awarded the Swedish South Asia Studies Network fellowship in Lund University, Sweden, Charles Wallace India Trust Research Grant, UK, Indian Council of Historical Research Junior Research Fellowship, New Delhi, the Papiya Ghosh Memorial Trust PhD Fellowship from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India, and Writing Fellowship from the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa. She has curated ‘Indian Circus: A Photo Exhibition’ in at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in 2013 (18–24 January) and organized an international conference, Circus Histories and Theories
(21–2 June 2018), at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where she has been a Social Science Research Council Transregional Research Fellow.
Nisha P R
Table of contents
LIST OF IMAGES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction: One Step inside the Ring
1. Performing Bodies and Physical Cultures
2. Animals, Circus, and the State
3. Tenting the Circus
4. Circus Workers and Trade Unions
Coda: Children of a Lesser God
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nisha P R
Nisha P R
Description
Jumbos and Jumping Devils is a pioneering exploration of the social history of circus in India over the last 150 years. It presents a wide variety of amazing tales ranging from the blooming and evolution of circus acrobatics in early twentieth-century Malabar to the sensational legal battles following the ban of wild animals and children from the circus ring in the twenty-first century.
Alongside extensive fieldwork and interviews, the author has used memorabilia including photographs, notices, posters, letters, diaries, unpublished autobiographies, private papers, and recollections of the circus community to chronicle the hitherto untold story of the Indian circus.
The book paves the way for a new sociocultural analysis of performance genres and popular culture in the subcontinent against several overlapping contexts. These include the remaking of caste and gender identities, transformation of physical cultures and bodies, interventions of the colonial and postcolonial states, and emergence of new transregional and transnational spaces.
About the Author
Nisha P R received her doctorate from the University of Delhi, India. Her research was on the social history of circus and circus performances in twentieth-century south India. Her monograph The
Jumping Devils: A Tale of Circus Bodies has been published in the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Occasional Paper Series. Her writings have appeared, amongst others, in Indian Economic and Social History Review, Economic and Political Weekly, Conservation and Society, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, and Social Science Probings. She has been awarded the Swedish South Asia Studies Network fellowship in Lund University, Sweden, Charles Wallace India Trust Research Grant, UK, Indian Council of Historical Research Junior Research Fellowship, New Delhi, the Papiya Ghosh Memorial Trust PhD Fellowship from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India, and Writing Fellowship from the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa. She has curated ‘Indian Circus: A Photo Exhibition’ in at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in 2013 (18–24 January) and organized an international conference, Circus Histories and Theories
(21–2 June 2018), at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where she has been a Social Science Research Council Transregional Research Fellow.
Read MoreTable of contents
LIST OF IMAGES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction: One Step inside the Ring
1. Performing Bodies and Physical Cultures
2. Animals, Circus, and the State
3. Tenting the Circus
4. Circus Workers and Trade Unions
Coda: Children of a Lesser God
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
