Sculpting the Middle Class

History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Katha

• Author(s): Deepa Sreenivas,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 220
• ISBN_10: 1136485856
  ISBN_13: 9781136485855
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / General , History / General , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Gender Studies , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic politics in India over the last 4 decades of the 20th century.