Nildarpan

play by Mitra

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In South Asian arts: Modern theatre
…success of Dina Bandhu Mitra’s Nildarpan (“Mirror of the Indigo”), dealing with the tyranny of the British indigo planters over the rural Bengali farm labourers, paved the way for professional theatre. The actor-director-writer Girish Chandra Ghosh founded in 1872 the National Theatre, the first Bengali professional company, and took Nildarpan…
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