British colonisation. Penang has one of the most strategic location in Tanah Melayu because it is located at the northern entry to the straits of Malacca and it was among the prominent trade route for merchants from different places such as China, India, Arabs and more. For this reason, British
set in motion another process of transformation in India known as Westernization. It is characterized by Western patterns of administration, legal system and education through the medium of the English language. Under the impact of the Western way of life, a sizeable section of educated and urbanized Indian adopted Western style of dress, food, drink, speech and manners. They received an impetus in the post-independence period. The independent India adopted a modern constitution, founded a secular
Our understanding has formed in such a way that the general populace; when asked what a church looks like, has a common thought of stages and an altar that overlooks an audience. The thing is though, ‘common’ has taken a new shape over the decades, and so I will aim to prove, it is clearly evident that the thought of tradition warps into something of almost complete difference or fades entirely if given sufficient time. I speak of this in the sense of how the intellectual being develops into a superior
more or less indisputable today. The roots of theatre in India are ancient and deep-seated. Theatrical expression of some kind or the other has been since primitive and mythic times, an integral part of Indian life. Our knowledge about the initial, primitive stage of theatrical activity in India is very meagre. However one can safely say that theatre in India as in Greece was deeply embroiled with religion and the theatrical activity in India as in other cultures “began with primitive, magical, religious