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'''''Gananatya''''', or ''Gananatya Sangha'', which started the '''Gananatya Andolan''' (People's Theatre Movement), were a radical theatre group which attempted to bring [[social]] and [[political]] [[theater]] to rural villages in [[Bengal]] in the 1930s and 1940s.<ref>''Theatre and politics: a study of group theatre movement of Bengal, 1948-1987'', by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay. Pub. Bibhasa, 1999. {{ISBN|8187337044}}. ''Page 50''.</ref><ref>''Encyclopaedia of Indian literature'', Volume 6. by Amaresh Datta, Mohan Lal. [[Sahitya Akademi]], 1994. ''Page 4823''.</ref>
'''''Gananatya''''', or ''Gananatya Sangha'', which started the '''Gananatya Andolan''' (People's Theatre Movement), were a radical theatre group which attempted to bring [[social]] and [[political]] [[theater]] to rural villages in [[Bengal]] during the [[British Raj|colonial rule in India]]  in the 1930s and 1940s.<ref>''Theatre and politics: a study of group theatre movement of Bengal, 1948-1987'', by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay. Pub. Bibhasa, 1999. {{ISBN|8187337044}}. ''Page 50''.</ref><ref>''Encyclopaedia of Indian literature'', Volume 6. by Amaresh Datta, Mohan Lal. [[Sahitya Akademi]], 1994. ''Page 4823''.</ref>


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Gananatya Sangha
TypeTheatre group
Location
  • Kolkata, India

Gananatya, or Gananatya Sangha, which started the Gananatya Andolan (People's Theatre Movement), were a radical theatre group which attempted to bring social and political theater to rural villages in Bengal during the colonial rule in India in the 1930s and 1940s.[1][2]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Theatre and politics: a study of group theatre movement of Bengal, 1948-1987, by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay. Pub. Bibhasa, 1999. ISBN 8187337044. Page 50.
  2. Encyclopaedia of Indian literature, Volume 6. by Amaresh Datta, Mohan Lal. Sahitya Akademi, 1994. Page 4823.