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New Indian Nuttahs

Comedy and Cultural Critique in Millennial India

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Authors:
  1. Kavyta Kay

    1. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, UK

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  • Provides an academic perspective on the comedy/society interface in a region where issues of censorship continue to dominate cultural industries
  • Explores the nuances of what could be termed “the new funny” from the generation of “New Indian Nuttahs”
  • Contributes to debates relevant to cultural industries and practitioners

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. “New” India and the Nuttahs

    • Kavyta Kay
    Pages 1-20

  3. Riffing India Comedy, Identity, and Censorship

    • Kavyta Kay
    Pages 21-46

  4. Women in Internet Comedy

    • Kavyta Kay
    Pages 47-60

  5. Down to Brown: A Footnote on British Asian and South Asian American Comedy

    • Kavyta Kay
    Pages 61-74

  6. The Currency of Comedy

    • Kavyta Kay
    Pages 75-85

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 87-88
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About this book

This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about identity, “Indianness”, censorship, feminism, diaspora and millennial India. It provides a unique analysis into the growing phenomenon of internet comedy and into a dimension of Indian popular culture which has long been dominated by the traditional film and television industries. Through a mixture of close textual readings of online comedy videos and interviews with content creators and consumers in India, this book provides a fresh perspective on comedy studies in its approach to a global South context from a sociocultural perspective. As a protean form of new media, this has opened up new avenues of articulation, identification and disidentification and as such, this book makes a further contribution to South Asian, communication, media & cultural studies.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, UK

    Kavyta Kay

About the author

Kavyta Kay is a University of London Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UK. Her research interests lie in intersectional ways of thinking through race, gender and sexuality from multiple platforms whether academic, popular culture or social.

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