• Seetha P.N.

India being the land of different ethnic groups is rich in diverse art forms. Each ethnic group has artforms and literature of their own. But the oppressed or minority doesn’t have a space of their own to showcase their talent. They found open space, streets and slums as their platform. But after colonial intervention, in the modern India they vanished from streets and open spaces. These performances doesn’t have in it socio – economic or political injustice they go through but it acted as a solace for the oppressed. For a long time till colonization, all street performances were categorized as folklore. But in the twentieth century with the Independence movement, arts and literature were used for spreading the paradigms of freedom struggle. Of all the art movements in India that have arisen in the twentieth century none fully encapsulate the problems of oppressed more than street theatre. Drawing from the culture of each individual city as well as from the marginalized group, street theater tries to give voice to the muted in the society. The paper will examine how the aesthetic space of the street theater projects certain kinds of subalternities in performance and also how this performance of subalternity has layered the idea of the subaltern at different times.

subaltern, folklore

"Now and Then of Street Performances in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 11, page no.c749-c755, November-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2111299.pdf

"Now and Then of Street Performances in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 11, page no. ppc749-c755, November-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2111299.pdf