From the start, Karline McLain's India's Immortal Comic Books, a study of the beloved Indian comic books series Amar Chitra Katha, will delight many Indologists. I suspect that most scholars of Hinduism, even those who, like myself, focus their work in classical texts and historical .
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Religion Compass, vol. 5, no. 10 (2011): 598-608. This article provides an overview of the birth of comics in India; a discussion of the available scholarship to date, which has focused largely on India’s most prominent comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, and its connections to classical Hindu mythology and modern Hindu nationalist ideology; a roundup of recent developments in Indian comics since the creation of Amar Chitra Katha; and briefly offers some suggestions for further research.
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Bulletin of the School for Oriental and African Studies, special volume on scripture and religion, vol. 71, no. 2 (2008): 297-322.
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International Journal of Hindu Studies, vol. 18, no. 3 (2014): 291-325.
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Chapter in the edited book Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle, ed. by Steven E. Lindquist (New York: Anthem Press, 2011): 369-390.
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. Chitra Ganesh's Tales of Amnesia surprisingly demands an elliptical reorganization of our understanding of semantic deconstruction. Instead of seeing it as simply a postmodern strategy, Ganesh uses it as a contemporary tool for affecting a cognitive return to an already existent, pre-colonial sensibility within the South Asian subcontinent. Pointing to the non-linear, multivocal approach to knowledge production and dissemination imbedded in ancient Hindu mythology and textual sources, Tales of Amnesia attempts to reconstruct the deconstructionist tendencies repressed during both the colonial period and the subsequent nationalism on which independent India is founded.
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International Journal of Comic Art Vol. 15, No. 1
NOTE: This article has a few out-dated details; please read alongside my Comics in India chapter in the Routledge Companion to Comics, or refer to that piece instead. Despite a diverse and long history of the comics medium in India, much scholarship has tended to focus on just a small sampling. As the most widely published and read Indian comics, books from the Amar Chitra Katha series are the ones that most scholars have focused upon, to the detriment of understanding the wider context of India’s comics, storytelling, and visual cultures. While Amar Chitra Katha would eventually transcend earlier comics and visual narratives in popularity, such works are important for their ability to engage local or regional arts and international comics culture. More importantly, few scholars have addressed the work of contemporary comics creators or the graphic novels and comics currently coming out of Delhi and the rest of India. This article provides a historical account of the path from comic books to the later rise of graphic novels grounded in one creator, Amitabh Kumar’s, experiences as an author and researcher on Indian comics and culture. As a comics creator and researcher, he celebrates the importance of other publishers and creators in maintaining comics as a narrative medium. Based on Kumar’s perspective, as he works to establish a historical narrative himself while engaging with that precedent in crafting his own comics, this article traces the roots of the comics medium in India, from political cartoons to superhero comics and graphic novels.
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