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020			_a9788189059880 (PB)
041			_aeng
080			_a32 _bSUN
100			_aSundar, Unnamati Syama (Ed.)
245			_aNo Laughing Matter _b: The Ambedkar Cartoons, 1932-1956
260			_bNavayana Publishing _aNew Delhi _c2019
300			_a407p. _bill.
504			_aIncludes References (397-406)
520			_aThis history like no other asks you to consider what you are laughing at. In 2012, the inclusion of a 1949 cartoon by Shankar showing Jawaharlal Nehru whipping a snail-borne B.R. Ambedkar in a school textbook, evoked dalit protest, and a savarna counter on the grounds of artistic freedom. Scholar and cartoonist Unnamati Syama Sundar then undertook an archival survey of cartoons on Ambedkar in the English language press. The result, a collection of over a hundred cartoons from India’s leading publications, drawn by Shankar, Enver Ahmed and R.K. Laxman, among others, lays bare the perverse and thoughtless hostility Ambedkar often contended with. The incisional commentary woven around each cartoon offers a veritable biography of a man historically wronged.
650			_aPolitics
650			_aHistory -- Comics
690			_aGeneral
942			_cBK
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