THE DREAMS OF TIPU SULTAN/BALI: THE SACRIFICE Two Plays by Girish Karnad

Girish

ISBN 10: 0195664760 / ISBN 13: 9780195664768

Published by Oxford University Press Indian Branch, India, 2004

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SIGNED - Very Good 1st Edition paperback with uncreased spine, lightly bumped and rubbed to ends. Some light shop-wear. Internally, front endpaper removed, signed and dedicated by author to Eunice Crook (OBE) to half-title page. Clean, bright pages. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. ; Oxford India Paperbacks; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 132 pages; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE DREAMS OF TIPU SULTAN/BALI: THE SACRIFICE Two Plays by Girish Karnad
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Indian Branch, India
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195664760
• ISBN 13: 9780195664768
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Girish Karnad is one of India's foremost dramatists and actors. This play, first staged at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre, is based on a tenth-century Jain myth about a king who finds his queen involved with an elephant-keeper.

About the Author

Girish Karnad was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Apart from working in theatre, he has directed and acted in films. He has served as Director of the Film and Television Institute of India, Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi (the National Academy of the Performing Arts) and Director of the Nehru Centre, London (the cultural wing of the High Commission of India). He was Visiting Professor and Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Chicago. He has been honored with the Padma Bhushan and conferred the prestigious Inanpith Award.