Professor Aparna Dharwadker has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her project “Alternative Modernities” and the Modernization of Urban Theatre in India, a book about urban theater and modernity in colonial and postcolonial India from 1850 to the present. The National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities by awarding grants for top-rated proposals examined by panels of independent, external reviewers. Professor Dharwadker’s NEH grant will support her research into the ways the development of urban theatre as a secular, competitive, artistic institution in colonial and postcolonial India exemplifies in uniquely complex ways the “alternative modernity” of cultural forms in the Global South.
