What was the role of cartoons and caricatures in Indian printing?
Answer:
- By 1870, caricatures and cartoons were being published in journals, newspapers, commenting on social and political issues.
- Some caricatures ridiculed the educated Indians’ fascination with western clothes and tastes, while others expressed the fear of social change.
- There were imperial caricatures highlighting nationalists as well as nationalist cartoons criticising imperial rule.