Rustom Bharucha

Rustom Bharucha (born 1953 in Calcutta) is an independent Indian non-fiction writer, director and cultural critic. He is currently Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Rustom Bharucha
Born1953
Calcutta (Kolkata)
Known forStudies of Indian theater and Asian ethnocentrism.
Academic background
Academic work
DisciplineTheater, cultural studies

Born to a Parsi family in Calcutta.[1] Bharucha was formerly a theatre director, and whilst he still works as a director, he is now better known for his writing. Among Bharucha's most highly regarded books are Theater and the World , The Question of Faith , In the Name of the Secular , The Politics of Cultural Practice and Rajasthan: An Oral History , in which he interviews the Indian folklorist Komal Kothari. His inter-Asian study of the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) and the Japanese painter Okakura Kakuzō (1862–1913). In this work, he places the pan-Asian in a cosmopolitan context.

Work

Bharucha is also interested in the compilation of memories, history writing and cultural identity. Under what circumstances, for example, is the claim to self-assertion, regardless of fundamental loss, an idyllic past, or a living tradition, played out as a legitimate reason to commit genocide and wage war.[2]

Bibliography
  • Rehearsals of Revolution. The Political Theater of Bengal . University of Hawaii Pr. ISBN 978-0824808457
  • Theater of Kanhailal. Pebet and Memoirs of Africa . Seagull Books. India 1992. ISBN 9788170 460947
  • Theater and the World. Performance and the Politics of Culture . Taylor & Francis Ltd. 1993. ISBN 978041 5092166
  • The Question of the Faith . 1993.
  • In the Name of the Secular. Contemporary Cultural Activism in India . Oxford University Press. New Edition. Delhi 1999. ISBN 9780195648898
  • The Politics of Cultural Practice. Thinking Through Theater in an Age of Globalization . Continuum International Publicing Group Ltd. 2000. ISBN 9780485006148
  • Rajasthan. An Oral History – Conversations with Komal Kothari . Penguin Books. New Delhi 2003. ISBN 97801 43029595
  • Another Asia. Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin . Oxford University Press, Delhi 2006.

References
  1. Gupta, Dhruba; Lal, Ananda; Lutgendorf, Philip (1993). "Inside-Outsider, Outside-Insider". TDR. 37 (4): 12–16. doi:10.2307/1146288. ISSN 1054-2043. JSTOR 1146288.
  2. Naomi Tootell: Rustom Bharucha. The Politics of Interculturalism . IPCS Newsletter No, 22, July 2006. Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Naomi Tootel: IPCS Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
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