Anthropologist’s new book examines newspaper cartoons’ importance to politics and culture

ARLINGTON, Texas -- A University of Texas at Arlington cultural anthropologist breaks ground in media and South Asian studies with a new book focused on newspaper cartoons, the cartoonists and the public reception of cartoons in India. “Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World” was recently published by Cambridge University Press. In the book, Ritu Gairola Khanduri, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the UT Arlington College of Liberal Arts, reveals how cartoons serve as teaching moments about identity politics and