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Rao, Velcheru Narayana Son of Buchi Narasinga and Venkubayamma Rao.
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Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam, a Play from Colonial India
( First staged in 1892, the South Indian play Girls for S...)
First staged in 1892, the South Indian play Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) is considered the greatest modern work of Telugu literature and the first major drama written in an Indian language that critiqued British colonialism’s effects on Indian society. Filled with humor, biting social commentary, parody, and masquerade, the plot revolves around a clever courtesan, a young widow, and a very old man who wants to buy as his wife a very young girl. Velcheru Narayana Rao has prepared the first idiomatic English translation, with notes and a critical essay. Itself a masterpiece of Indian literature in translation, this edition makes Apparao’s work available to new audiences.
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Girls For Sale
(First staged in 1892, Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) is con...)
First staged in 1892, Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) is considered one of the greatest modern works of Telugu literature. The first major play written in an Indian language that critiqued British colonial India's effects on Indian society, it is filled with humour, biting social commentary, parody and masquerade. The plot revolves around an English-speaking dandy, a clever courtesan, a young widow, and an old man who wants to buy a very young girl as his wife. Eminent Telugu scholar and literary critic Velcheru Narayana Rao's English translation, with notes and a critical essay, makes Apparao's work available to a new audience.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143066889/?tag=2022091-20
Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam, a Play from Colonial India by Apparao Gurajada Rao Velcheru Narayana (2007-07-20) Paperback
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Velcheru Narayana Rao
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Doctor of Philosophy, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.
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Professor University Wisconsin, Madison.
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Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam, a Play from Colonial India
( First staged in 1892, the South Indian play Girls for S...)
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Girls For Sale
(First staged in 1892, Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) is con...)
- Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam, a Play from Colonial India by Apparao Gurajada Rao Velcheru Narayana (2007-07-20) Paperback
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Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam, a Play from Colonial India
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