The Theater of Bhartendu Harishchandra: The Iconic Journey
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The paper highlights the theme of the rejuvenation of Hindi language as a Deus Ex Machina of the nation in the times when the nation was roiled by the exigencies of the suppressive and exploitative British Colonial rule. The paper also highlights the idiom of the impact of the word theater and specifically how the plays written by Bhartendu Harishchandra played a key reformative and enhancing role in the engendering of nationalism and patriotic ethics in the larger land, its hoi polloi and across the largesse of the larger length and breadth of Bharat in those tricky and unfree times for the nation. The paper also weaves in a slight theoretical backgrounder as far as the literary device of Bhartendu’s theater and the generic nature of plays in the larger sense of the term is concerned.
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