Wit and Wisdom: Pickings from the Parsee Punch - Rilegato

Hasan, Mushirul

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ISBN 10: 8192091260 ISBN 13: 9788192091266

Casa editrice: Niyogi Books, 2012

Riassunto

The Parsee Punch, an illustrated comic weekly paper in the Bombay Presidency, published between 1854 and the 1930s, highlighted the relationship between public culture and colonialism. The cartoons they published illustrate, in a lighter vein, contemporary anxieties and predicaments in a witty satirical fashion. The book presents a selection from the publication.

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L'autore:

Professor Mushirul Hasan is an internationally renowned historian, prolific author and former Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi. Professor Hasan has also authored Partners in Freedom: Jamia Milia Islamia (Niyogi Books, 2006); Mutiny Memoirs (Niyogi Books, 2009); and The Avadh Punch: Wit and Humour in Colonial North India (2007) as part of the Punch series brought out by Niyogi Books. He has written extensively on the Partition of India, on communalism and on the histories of Islam in South Asia. Professor Hasan was the elected President of the Indian History Congress in 2002. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India and in 2010 the Ordre des Palmes Académiques was conferred upon him by the French Government. He is presently the Director-General of the National Archives of India.

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• Editore: Niyogi Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 8192091260
• ISBN 13: 9788192091266
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 164