Elham Hossain, Foreword - Acknowledgements - Chronological Order of Plays - Bijender Singh, Introduction: Tracing the Trajectory of Indian Drama in English - Bijender Singh, Protibha Mukherjee Sahukar and Surendra Kumar Sao, A General Introduction - PART I Indian Classical and Pre-Independence Drama (Up to 1947) - Monika Chahal, Vasantasena as a New Woman in ¿¿draka's M¿cchakäika: The Little Clay Cart - Budhanath Pratihast, The Curse of Oblivion: Love, Separation and Reunion in Kalidasa's Abhijnana-Shakuntalam: The Recognition of Shakuntala - Kush Sengupta, The Persecuted Pioneer: A Critical Analysis of Krishna Mohana Banerjea's The Persecuted - Preetha Prabhasan, A Portrait of Femininity: Exploring Love, Identity and Freedom in Rabindranath Tagore's Chitra - Kumari Shikha and Shailja Bahadur, Dehumanisation, Class Divides and Capitalist Exploitation in Harindranath Chattopadhyay's The Window - Silky, Gender, Power and Liberation: An Analysis of Andromeda's Character in Sri Aurobindo's Perseus the Deliverer - Baiju Krishnan and Puneet Pathak, Ekalavya as the Unsung Hero: Reinterpretation of Myth in T P. Kailasam's The Purpose: A Playlet of Ekalavya - PART II Post-Independence and Early Modern Drama (From 1947 to 1980) - Kalyan Pattanayak and Yashoda Kumari, Bright Lights, Dark Realities: Prostitution and the Splintered Self in Partap Sharma's A Touch of Brightness - Grace Aonok and Suganthi R., Desire and Defiance: Bharat's Advances and Nalini's Two Selves in Nissim Ezekiel's Play Nalini - Jayini Bhaumik, Man is Condemned to be Free: Locating Existential Angst and Discontentment in Badal Sircar's Evam Indrajit - Jeevan Sagar, Madness, Power and the Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Girish Karnad's Tughlaq - R. Kalaiselvi and R. Ragapriya, Charandas' Experiment with Truth in Habib Tanvir's Charandas Chor - Talat, Shadows of Sanctuary: The Predicament of Refugees in Asif Currimbhoy's The Refugee - PART III
Modern Indian Drama (From 1980 to 2000) - Anurag Ambasta, Degeneration, Corruption and Violence: Analysing the Subtlety of Power Politics in Vijay Tendulkar's Ghashiram Kotwal - Nidhi Shukla and Rupal Agrawal, Mahesh Elkunchwar's Party: An Exegesis of Socio-Political Dialectics - Rachuri Raajitha, From Courtroom to Kitchen: Indian Judicial System and Gender Dynamics in Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court is in Session - Abhinandan Bag and Kumara Swamy Ravipati, Transnationalism and the Third Space: Alienation, Identity and Utopian Aspirations in Badal Sircar's Beyond the Land of Hattamala - Mohanapriya, A Study on Vasudha's Plight and Her Transformation as a Phoenix Bird in Shanta Gokhale's Avinash - N. Bavithra, Disillusion of Perfectionism in Girish Karnad's Hayavadana - Upakul Patowary and Jeuti Talukdar, Burning Brides and Broken Systems: Dowry and Death in Dina Mehta's Brides Are Not for Burning - Harneet Kaur, The Tears of Resilience: Examining Grief, Class Struggle, and Female Empowerment in Usha Ganguli's Rudali - Meenu Bhola, Human Commodification: Ethical Quandaries of Organ Trade and Its Ramifications in Manjula Padmanabhan's Futuristic Play Harvest - Anand Prakash Dwivedi, Diasporic Experiences and Identity Construction in Uma Parameswaran's Rootless but Green Are the Boulevard Trees - Dhiman Chakraborty, Human Rights Violations and State Violence in Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084 - Jupitara Boro, Tamasa as a Form of Navigating Caste Oppression in Datta Bhagat's Whirlpool - PART IV Contemporary Indian Drama (2001 Onwards) - Suresh Frederick and Keshab Sigdel, Myth, Misogyny, and Marginalisation: A Feminist Study of Bhisham Sahni's Madhavi - Kusum Kangar, Intersecting Margins of Casteism: Jyoti Devalikar's Marital Entrapment in Vijay Tendulkar's Kanyadaan - Ancy Eapen, Indira Parthasarathy's Aurangzeb: A Historicized Play of Brechtian Epic Theatre - Suruchi Sharma, Unmasking Trauma, Incest and Psychological Wounds in Mahesh Dattani's Thirty Days in September - Kathyayini S. and P. Kiranmai, Morality, Media, and Masculinity: Public Shaming and Toxic Masculinity in Anupama Chandrasekhar's Free Outgoing - Meenu Dudeja, Voices of Incompleteness: An Exploration of Fragmented Identities in Mohan Rakesh's Halfway House - Mayank Kumar, Entangled in Marital Labyrinths: Rani's Cords of Confinement in Girish Karnad's Naga-Mandala - Nisha Dubey and Nigar Ahmed, Vestiges of Despotism: The Nexus of Corruption and Power in Utpal Dutt's Hunting the Sun - Meera K.G., Echoes of Communal Conflicts and the Patriarchal Issues in Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions - Fardinand Minj and Pravind Kumar Patel, The Miasma of Malevolence: Marriage, Mayhem and Misogyny in Poile Sengupta's Play Mangalam - Ram Sebak Thakur and Vishwajeet, Echoes of Enlightenment: Analysing Spiritual Discourse in R.M. Prabhulinga Shastry's Vivekananda: The Voice of India - Sumana Dey, Conjoined through Confusions: The Sister Dyad in Mahesh Dattani's Bravely Fought the Queen - Nidhi Bhatnagar and Parveen Bala, Exploration of the Influence of Marxist-Feminism in Manjula Padmanabhan's Lights Out - Shikha Saxena, Satish Alekar's The Grand Exit or Mahanirvan: A Seminal Work on Death and Mortality - Asit Panda, Environmental Concerns and Human-Animal Conflicts in K.N. Panikkar's The Lone Tusker - Guni Vats and Milind Solanki, Existential Despair and the Redemption of Hope: A Literary and Psychological Analysis of Bijender Singh's Say No to Suicide: Say Yes to Life - Notes on Editors - Notes on Contributors - Index
