01580nas a2200253   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653001400044653001100058653001100069653002200080653000900102653002400111653002000135653001200155100001800167245009600185856015400281300001200435490000600447520085300453022002001306       2017                            d10aClassical10aKerala10aUNESCO10acultural politics10afolk10aintangible heritage10anation-building10atheatre1 aLeah Lowthorp00aFolklore, politics, and the state: Kutiyattam theatre and national/global heritage in India  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85029898761&doi=10.1080%2f19472498.2017.1371513&partnerID=40&md5=c01a1504eabc0873e517c01e90c248df  a542-5590 v83 aIn recent decades, scholars of South Asian folklore have increasingly engaged the politics of folklore, interrogating its role in a number of political agendas, but less has been written about the connection within South Asian folklore studies. This study makes a national and global intervention in the relationship between folklore and the state in South Asia. Through the lens of Kutiyattam Sanskrit theatre of Kerala state, it considers the role of expressive culture in both internal and external nation-building in postcolonial India. In so doing, the study traces state heritage discourse and practice over a 60-year period, exploring the production and reproduction of the Indian state’s role as arts patron and cultural educator, as well as a sustained state-level promotion of artistic continuity through creative adaptation and change.  a19472498 (ISSN)