"Series VIII quickly establish itself a standard reference source book on 'Deccan Theatre', an exhaustive and all encompassing work covering as it does the whole ground connected with South Indian theatre in its modern phase, categorising into the heads, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu and Pondicherry.

The volume painstakingly document almost everything you need to know about their theatre commencing from a brisk history high-lighting trends, movements, personalities, troupes etc; recent theatre happenings, bibliographical accounts of playwrights and theatre practitioners, scripts, theatre institutions, supplemented with numerous invaluable and rare photographs and also included informative appendices.

Highly recommended for the libraries, academies, schools, institution interested in Indian stage and above all to critical readers, theatre historians and connoisseurs."

Contents: Preface. 1. Andhra Pradesh. 2. Karnataka. Kerala. 4. Tamil Nadu. 5. Pondicherry.