Bidesiya (play)

Bidesiya
Written byBhikhari Thakur
Date premiered1912
Original languageBhojpuri
SubjectMigration, Women Empowerment, Poverty
GenreTheatre
SettingA Village in Bihar-Purvanchal, Kolkata

Bidesiya or Baharā Bahār is a Bhojpuri play by Bhojpuri playwright Bhikhari Thakur. It is one of the several plays written by Bhikhari Thakur on women empowerment, migration and poverty. Owing to its popularity it becomes the folk theatre style of Bhojpuri region, some scholars has also claimed it to be as popular as Ramayana in those days.

The play depicts the condition of women in Bhojpuri Society in the 19th century, the problem of migration and poverty. The play was composed and staged in 1912 and published as a book in 1917.

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