Somnath Gupt chaired the Hindi departments at Jaswant College, Jodhpur, and the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, in the 1950s and 1960s and wrote more than a dozen books on Hindi drama, fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. Kathryn Hansen is professor emeritus of Asian studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she served as director of the Center for Asian Studies. She is the author of Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India and Stages of Life: Indian Theatre Autobiographies.
"""A valuable book. . . Especially useful are the prefaces attached to original playbooks containing details of authorship, theatre company, dates of publication and the point of view of playwrights. . . . The Parsi Theatre: Its Origin and Development in English translation is a welcome addition to the literature on the Parsi theatre."" * The Scroll *"