Abstract
Piciel’s Khooro was published every Sunday between 1935 and 1975 in the English newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika (ABP). This newspaper gags captured the daily struggles of its eponymous protagonist, Khooro, a middle-aged clerk in Calcutta who witnessed first-hand the impacts of WWII and the Bengal Famine (1943). The object of satire in Khooro is the middle-class clerical body caught in these tumultuous times. Khooro depicts prevalent anxieties and fears of the middle-class clerical profession caught in the myriad civic issues of urbanity. Drawing on the methods of periodical and multimodal studies, this article analyzes Khooro gags to propose a “meta-imagetextual” reading of visual-verbal narratives in colonial periodicals that can be rightly called “concomitant literature.”
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