Contextualizing Power Politics of Tamasha Art and Female Suffering in Dalit Autobiography

Authors

  • Roshan K. Morve Central University of Gujarat

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v1i2.285

Keywords:

Kolhaty, Maharashta, tamasha, dancer, politics, Dalit autobiography

Abstract

“Tamasha” is a form of entertainment, which came in the 16th century and transforms it into business and politics after the independence of India. It became a cultural part of the Kolhati community in Maharashtra. This paper has significant to define that the politics of Tamasha and female suffering through the twentieth century dalit autobiography Kishor Kale’s Kolhatyach Por (1994). It will also discuss that his personal and painful experiences where he born and grown up in the misery environment. It needs to understand that how the dalit women becoming the victims of politics and how their family takes tragic and painful end. Therefore, this paper tries to make a link between the Tamasha dancers and the dalit experiences through the power politics. In the end, it comes to conclude that emergence of the dehumanized social conditions and ignorance of the dalit Kolhaty community. It demands for their right and the respect of the Tamasha art.

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Author Biography

  • Roshan K. Morve , Central University of Gujarat

    Center for Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Central University of Gujarat, India

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2014-12-31

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014): July - December Issue

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Morve , R. K. . (2014). Contextualizing Power Politics of Tamasha Art and Female Suffering in Dalit Autobiography. Asian Journal of Humanity, Art and Literature, 1(2), 77-83. https://doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v1i2.285