"Volume 69 number 3 March 2018"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-133) and index.
Contents:
Lessons from Hell. The oldest of archives -- "Atrocious representations" -- Myth, play and pedagogy -- Short notes on Heaven -- Printing in India -- Veracity and the "public" -- Puranic origins -- Colonial Hell -- Indian hells in a global context -- The architecture of Hell -- Yampats -- The mechanics of mimesis -- Dalit critiques -- The history of Hell -- Celluloid Hell -- Mimesis as an infection -- From Karni Bharni to ideal boy -- The politics of Karni Barni -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
"This book documents the growth of printed images of punishments in hell from 19th and 20th century India. It explores what happens when new technologies of image reproduction collide with deep cultural traditions, and traces the sources of the iconography and formal visual structures that found new expression in late 19th century chromolithographs showing deeds and their punishments"--inside front cover.
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