Indian Comics - Bibliography

Bibliography

Chandra, Nandini. The Classic Popular-Amar Chitra Katha (1967-2007), Yoda Press, 2008. ISBN 81-903634-3-3. The book analyses the ideological sources, objectives and the influence of Amar Chitra Katha comics in the cultural politics of India. It is possibly the first book length discussion of Indian comics.

Hawley, John Stratton. 'The Saints Subdued: Domestic Virtue and National Integration in Amar Chitra Katha' in Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia, eds. Lawrence A Babb, Susan S. Wadley, Motilal Banarasidas, 1998.

Khanduri, Rita. 'Comicology: comic books as culture in India', Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Vol 1., Issue 2, 2010.

Kumar, Amitabh. Raj Comics for the Hard-Headed. Delhi: Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 2008.

MacLain, Karline. India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes, Indiana University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-253-22052-3.

Murthy, Bharat. 'An art without a tradition: a survey of Indian comics', a critical essay in Marg: A Magazine of the Arts, Vol.61, No.2, December, 2009.

Pritchett, Frances W. 'The World of Amar Chitra Katha' in Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia, eds. Lawrence A Babb, Susan S. Wadley, Motilal Banarasidas, 1998.

Rao, Aruna. 'Goddess/Demon, Warrior/Victim: Representations of Women in Indian Comics' in Themes and issues in Asian cartooning: cute, cheap, mad, and sexy, ed. John A. Lent, Popular Press, 1999

Rao, Aruna. 'From Self-Knowledge to Super Heroes: The Story of Indian Comics' in Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines, and Picture Books, ed. John A. Lent, University of Hawaii Press, 2001

See also the bibliography in Lent, John A., Comic art of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America through 2000: an international bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.

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