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No Laughing Matter : The Ambedkar Cartoons, 1932 to 1956 by and selected by Unnamati Syama Sundar is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This 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 Indias 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. These cartoons are as relevant today as they were seventy years agoVijeta Kumar No Laughing Matter unveils the dirty savarna gaze and gives us much to learnVarun Grover Syama Sundar uncovers upper-caste majoritarianism disguised as artistic freedomRajyashri Goody A scathing and unsparing reappraisal of Indian political cartooningSuraj Yengde, in his Foreword Unnamati Syama Sundar grew up in Vijayawada on a diet of Calvin and Hobbes,

Who reads No Laughing Matter : The Ambedkar Cartoons, 1932 to 1956?

Author

and selected by Unnamati Syama Sundar

Publisher

Navayana Publishing Pvt. Ltd.

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9788189059880

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Government & Politics

Rating

4.7 / 5 (106 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14