Ritu Gairola Khanduri

Caricaturing Culture in India (eBook, ePUB)

Cartoons and History in the Modern World

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Produktbeschreibung

Caricaturing Culture in India is a highly original history of political cartoons in India. Drawing on the analysis of newspaper cartoons since the 1870s, archival research and interviews with prominent Indian cartoonists, this ambitious study combines historical narrative with ethnographic testimony to give a pioneering account of the role that cartoons have played over time in political communication, public discourse and the refraction of ideals central to the creation of the Indian postcolonial state. Maintaining that cartoons are more than illustrative representations of news, Ritu Gairola Khanduri uncovers the true potential of cartoons as a visual medium where memories jostle, history is imagined and lines of empathy are demarcated. Placing the argument within a wider context, this thought-provoking book highlights the history and power of print media in debates on free speech and democratic processes around the world, revealing why cartoons still matter today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139985857
• Artikelnr.: 41774203

Autorenporträt

Ritu Gairola Khanduri is a cultural anthropologist and historian of India. She is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Texas, Arlington. In addition to her research on media, she is currently completing a book on Gandhi and material culture. Research for Caricaturing Culture in India has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Foundation, the Institute for Historical Research-Mellon Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation's prestigious Carley Hunt Postdoctoral fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: the empire of cartoons
Part I. Colonial Times: 1. Upstart Punches: why is impertinence always in the vernacular?
2. Gandhi and the satyagraha of cartoons: cultivating a taste
3. 'Dear Shankar ... your ridicule should never bite'
Part II. National Times: 4. Becoming a cartoonist: Mr Kutty and Bireshwarji
5. Virtual gurus and the Indian psyche: R. K. Laxman
6. Uncommon women and common men: pocket cartoons and 'situated knowledges'
7. Artoons and our toons: the prose of an Indian art
Part III. Global Times: 8. Crafty petitions and street humor
9. 'All our gods and goddesses are cartoons'
Conclusions: timeless myths and timely knowledge
Notes to the text
Bibliography
Index.