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The book concludes with a summary of the modern vernacular public sphere that was, and is, characterized by the segmentation of publics on communal, religious, caste, and linguistic lines and the omnipresence of performative violence. Drawing on examples of the Muslim and Hindu boycotts of the Parsi theatre, the chapter shows how the South Asian public sphere came to be marked as much by the performance of group feeling as of violent exclusion, becoming the site for not only territorial imaginings but also sociocultural power play, chauvinist assertion, and the performance of outrage.
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Nicholson, R.D. (2021). Conclusion. In: The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage. Transnational Theatre Histories. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65836-6_9
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