The Place of Comics in the Modern Hindu Imagination

Abstract

Abstract 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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