Origin of Puppetry in India
Puppetry is a traditional folk theatrical form of India. The word puppet comes from the French word ‘Poupee’ or the Latin ‘Pupa’, both meaning ‘dolls’. In Sanskrit puppets are termed ‘Putrika’,’Putraka’or ‘Puttalika’, all of which are derived from the root Putta equivalent to Putra (son). It is derived from ancient Indian thoughts that puppets have life. Although puppetry involves in the manipulation of puppets-inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer or sutradhar. Puppetry is the most sophisticated enactments with boundless possibilities for creativeness. There is strong belief and contention by scholars across the globe that puppetry originated in Asian Countries and India is the cradle of puppetry and travelled across the seven seas to the other parts of the eastern and western world. According to European scholar, Richard Pischel, India is the Land of birth for puppets. There are refer