Wit and Wisdom Pickings from the Parsee Punch |
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| Author:
| Hasan, Mushirul |
| ISBN: | 978-81-920912-6-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Niyogi Books
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $26.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.