The book also contains- for the first time in any book on puppetry-four important appendices: Museums in India containing puppets, Directory of Indian Puppeteers, Global Bibliography on Puppeteers and a relevant Glossary.
The book aims at giving a connected account of the children of the Indian puppets: their variety, their multiple functions, their craft, their animation and their connections with other related arts in five separate parts. Puppets are by no means for only children- as the puppeteers of Orissa sing and dance about the romantic love of Radha and Krishna, and Keralan puppets narrate Kathakali stories in the same make-up and costumes. These and a thousand other scintillating facts come out of this exciting book for the reader's entertainment and elucidation. The famous puppeteers of Rajasthan are really acrobats, who only put on puppet shows when they move out of villages. Puppetry is one enduring form, which has entertained masses and educated people. Puppets dated back to a period well before Bharata's Natya Shastra and have continued unabated throughout the centuries in almost all Indian states.
Puppetry originated in India and travelled across the seven seas to the Eastern and Western world as vouched by many scholars.
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