Colonial India
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Living through the carnage of the 1857 Revolt, Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib’s was most pained at the ruin of his beloved city, Delhi. Interestingly, we find that while in his ‘official and published’ diary, ‘Dastanbuy’, he writes in support of the British (his then patrons), some personal letters…
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Once the novel arrived on the Hindi literary scene in the late nineteenth century, several eminent Hindi hitaishis[1] (benefactors) realised its scope for familiarising the emerging readership with the Indian past, which usually meant an exaggerated Hindu past resisting the cruelty of the Muslim…
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History emerged as a contentious issue between the coloniser and the colonised in nineteenth-century colonial India. In a bid to justify their rule over India, the British wrote histories where the Indian past was nullified as static and unchanging, thereby inferior, which required the legislative…
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The ‘novel’ is usually regarded as a Western genre of literature that found its way into South Asian literary culture during the nineteenth century as a by-product of colonialism. However, it can be argued that it was assimilated into modern Indian languages not in its original name of ‘novel’ but…
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History emerged as a contentious issue between the coloniser and the colonised in nineteenth century colonial India. Through works such as James Mill’s The History of British India (1818–1823), the British legitimised their rule in India by writing histories where they absorbed the history of India…
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He took an early retirement to focus on his interest in popular art, cartooning and poster making, and turned to the neglected art of Bengali political cartoons. He won two consecutive grants (in 2007 and 2010) under the ‘Bengali Language Initiative’ of the Indian Foundation for the Arts to archive…
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As Shakespeare never exhausts his supply of 'horn' jokes for mocking cuckoldry, the satirist of contemporary fashions relies without fail on the mistaken sexual identity.
—Susan C. Saphiro[1]
Perhaps the most hackneyed subject of ridicule in a satire of any form, from any part of the world, is…
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Political caricature was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by the British colonisers in the second half of the nineteenth century. The railways, the telegraph and the printing press that were introduced by the British to help the imperial project in India went on to become critical apparatus in…
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The art of political caricature was brought into the Indian subcontinent by the British colonisers. A British cartoon periodical, Punch, was widely circulated throughout the empire, and reached India and Bengal, even though it regularly derided the colonial subject. This happened in the second half…
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