Mahesh Dattani is a well-known Indian director, actor and the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. His highly acclaimed plays include Final Solutions, Dance Like a Man, Bravely Fought the Queen, On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Tara, Thirty Days in September and The Murder that Never Was. Dattani’s plays are strongly Indian in flavour and tone. The book is an anthology of scholarly articles on various aspects of Mahesh Dattani’s plays.

A representation of subjugation depicted through the conflict of traditional cultural thought in Dattani’s plays has been highlighted. It will be useful for the students and teachers of Indian English Literature and researchers in this field.