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In 1848, an innovative Othello was performed at the Sans Souci Theatre in Calcutta, India. Producer Manager, James Barry, managed to cast a native Indian as the title character. Barry’s Othello was an enormously revolutionary and influential event for the Indian stage as well as for Indian society. Although the native Indian actor, Baishnav Charan Adhaya, was modestly accepted in Western society at first, his second performance was bitterly rejected. This situation is similar to the character Othello’s. In India, there were elite Indians like Othello, who were cultivated by the Westerners. Barry gave a representation of the elite Indian people who agonized over their positions in colonial India and were victims of the cunning strategy of the English education system.