Performance and Performativity of Dalit Students Politics in India - The Justice for Rohith Movement

This monograph examines the significance of body, space, sound/voice/music and objects of resistance in everyday performance of Dalit student protests, focusing on the protests which erupted after Rohith Vemula, a doctoral student died, by suicide in Hyderabad Central University on 17 January 2016 in Hyderabad (India).

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Performing Bodily Acts of Resistance and Solidarity
Chapter 3. Performing Songs as Acts of Resistance and Solidarity
Chapter 4. Politics and Circulation of Performing Objects
Chapter 5. Conclusion

About the author

Malavika Priyadarshini Rao is an Assistant Professor at Christ Deemed to be University, Bangalore.

Product details

• Authors: Malavika Priyadarshini Rao
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032613925
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3261392-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, India, Theatre Studies, Regional Studies, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Regional / International studies, Performance Art, Demonstrations & protest movements, HISTORY / Asia / South / General