GHOSH, Manomohan

Nandikeśvara's Abhinaya-Darpanam

Calcutta: Metropolitan Printing & Publishing House, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's decorated beige cloth, titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. 55pp.; [1]. Bumping to corners and spine ends, strong and tight, with some thumbing and soiling to the cloth in places; internally clean and fresh, printed in English and Sanskrit, with the illustrated front panel of the glassine dustjacket laid into the book, a few neat pencil annotations in places, illustrated throughout. A very good, clean copy.

A bi-lingual manual of interpretation and meaning devoted to the gestures and poses used in traditional Hindu dance and staged drama. Ghosh seems to have been a true renaissance man, a scholar in Indian linguistics at Calcutta University; his translation and interpretations appear here for the first time, as part of Pandit Amareswar Thakur's Calcutta Sanskrit Series (of which this volume is No. 5). Ghosh's other work included cultural and anthropological subjects like traditional Indian sexuality texts, translations of other aspects of traditional Hindu culture and sanskrit texts including a two volume translation of the Natya Shastra, and digests of world politics for Indian audiences. Book production values are necessarily cheap, with thin paper and visible re-use of elements from other publications, nevertheless producing a volume that is aesthetically very pleasing.

Price: $175.00

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