“Not prone to any transitive logic, or amenable to a linear succession in time, the bioscopic assemblage is incarnated and re-invented in diverse historical contexts by bricoleurs many times.” Sudhir Mahadevan - The Bioscopewallah and Early Cinema History in India 2010.
The bioscope’s traveling history is a cinema practice of scrappy re-invention, responding to an ever-changing media ecology in India. One way that the practice survived was through family and inheritance: