LIST 1: HINDI CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
- Chandra, Nandini. “Siting Childhood : A Study of Children’s Magazines in Hindi 1920 50.” Doctoral Thesis, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2001. http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/10603/29127.
- Chandra, Nandini. “The Pedagogic Imperative of Travel Writing in the Hindi World: Children’s Periodicals (1920–1950).” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 30, no. 2 (August 1, 2007): 293–325. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856400701499250.
- Devsare, Hari Krishna. Hindī Bālasāhitya: Eka Adhyayana. [1. saṃskaraṇa]. Dillī: Ātmārāma, 1969.
- Kumar, Dr Nikesh. Baal Saahitya : Svaroop Evm Vikaas. BFC Publications, 2021.
- Lal, Ruby. Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Manu, Prakāśa. Hindī Bāla Kavitā Kā Itihāsa. 1. saṃskaraṇa. Dillī: Medhā Buksa, 2003.
- Manu, Prakāśa, and R̥tuśrī. Hindī Bāla Sāhitya Ke Śikhara Vyaktitva. Prathama saṃskaraṇa. Naī Dillī: Prakāśana Vibhāga, Sūcanā aura Prasāraṇa Mantrālaya, Bhārata Sarakāra, 2013.
- Kapūra, Mastarāma. Hindī Bāla-sāhitya Kā Vivecanātmaka Adhyayana. Prathama saṃskaraṇa. New Delhi: Anamika Publishers and Distributors, 2015.
- Nijhawan, Shobna. Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere: Periodical Literature in Colonial North India. Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Roy, Malini. “The Grimm Brothers’ Kahaniyan”. In Grimms’ Tales Around the Globe : The Dynamics of Their International Reception, edited by Vanessa Joosen, 135-152. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2014.
- Śrīprasāda. Hindī Bāla Sāhitya Kī Rūparekhā. 1. saṃskaraṇa. Ilāhābāda: Lokabhāratī Prakāśana, 1985.
- Siṃha, Vaidyanātha. Hindī Sāhitya Ke Vikāsa Meṃ Bāla Patra-patrikāoṃ Kā Yogādana. Dvitīya saṃskaraṇa. Vārāṇasī: Kalā Prakāśana, 2015.
- Sinha, Sharmila. Aspects of Children’s Literature. National Book Trust, India, 2001.
- Topdar, Sudipa. “Duties of a ‘Good Citizen’: Colonial Secondary School Textbook Policies in Late Nineteenth-Century India.” South Asian History and Culture 6, no. 3 (July 3, 2015): 417–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2015.1030877.
- Vikrama, Surendra. Hindī Bāla Patrakāritā: Udbhava Aura Vikāsa. 1. saṃskaraṇa. Ilāhābāda: Sāhityavāṇī, 1992.
SPECIFICALLY ON AMAR CHITRA KATHA
- Chandra, Nandini. “The Amar Chitra Katha Shakuntala: Pin-Up or Role Model?” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, no. 4 (December 8, 2010). https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.3050.
- Chandra, Nandini. The Classic Popular: Amar Chitra Kathā, 1967-2007. New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2008.
- Daiya, Kavita. “South Asia in Graphic Narratives.” South Asian Review 39, no. 1–2 (April 3, 2018): 3–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2018.1514131.
- Hawley, John Stratton. “The Saints Subdued: Domestic Virtue and National Integration in Amar Chitra Kathā.” In Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia, Edited by Lawrence A. Babb, Susan S. Wadley., 107–36. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1998.
- Kumar, Rahul. “A Brief History of Hindi Comics in India: Amar Chitra Katha, Raj Comics and the Internet.” Sahapedia, August 21, 2019. Accessed February 13, 2022. https://www.sahapedia.org/brief-history-hindi-comics-india-amar-chitra-katha-raj-comics-and-internet.
- Mannur, Anita. “The Controversial Amar Chitra Kathā Comic Books – ProQuest.” Accessed May 14, 2021. http://www.proquest.com/docview/216115168/fulltextPDF/73CBF7808724405APQ/1?accountid=14657.
- Madan, Anuja. “HINDU MYTHOLOGY IN INDIAN COMICS AND ANIMATIONS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, 2000-2015.” Doctoral, University of Florida, n.d. http://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/E0/05/02/34/00001/MADAN_A.pdf.
- McLain, Karline. India’s Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
- Pritchett, Frances W. “The World of Amar Chitra Katha.” In Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia, Edited by: Lawrence A. Babb and Susan S. Wadley, 76–106. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512800180-007.
- Sreenivas, Deepa. Sculpting a Middle Class: History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Kathā in India. New Delhi: Routledge, 2010.
list 2: Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies
- Balagopalan, Sarada. (2011). Introduction: Children’s lives and the Indian context. Childhood, 18(3) 291-297.
- Bandyopadhyay, S. The Gopal Rakhal Dialectic: Colonialism and Children’s Literature in Bengal(Ray, R & Sen, N, Trans.) Tulika Books. 2013.
- Banerjee, S. (2013). Strategic Empowerment: A Study of Subjectivity in Contemporary Indian English Children’s Fiction. Subjectivity in Asian Children’s Literature and Film, 181-196.
- Bagchi, J. (1993). Socialising the Girl Child in Colonial Bengal. Economic and Political Weekly, 28(41) 2214-2219.
- Debroy, D. (2018). The Changing Treatment of Disability in Children’s Literature in India. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, 56(4) 14-21.
- Dhar, P. (2019, July 9). Children’s literature in India has to do a better job of telling stories about disability. Sexuality and Disability. https://blog.sexualityanddisability.org/2019/07/childrensliterature/
- Ghosh, S.(2016). Dunce! Duffer!Dimwit! Dyslexia in Bollywood’s Taare Zameen Pe. In Fraser, B(Eds.), Cultures of Representations: Disability in World Cinema(pp 63-77). Columbia University Press.
- Gervay, S. (2004). Butterflies: Youth literature as a powerful tool in understanding disability. Disabilities Studies Quarterly, 24(1).
- Guatierrez, Katrina A. (2009). Mga Kweno ni Lola Bayand: A Tradition of Reconfiguring the Filipino Child. International Research in Children’s Literature, 2(2) 159-176.
- Kakar, Sudhir. (1981). The Inner World: A psycho-analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India. Oxford University Press.
- Khorana, Meena. (1991). The Indian Subcontinent in Literature for Children’s and Young Adults: An Annotated Bibliography of English -Language Books. Greenwood Publishing Group
- Nandy, A. (1984). Reconstructing Childhood: A Critique of the Ideology of Adulthood. Alternatives, 10(3), 359–375. https://doi.org/10.1177/030437548401000303.
- Nieuwenhuys, O. (2010). Keep asking: Why childhood? Why children? Why Global? Childhood, 17(3) 291-296.
- Prater, M. A. & Dyches, T. T. (2008). Teaching about disabilities through children’s literature. Libraries Unlimited.
- Sen, Nivedita. (2015). Family, School and Nation: The child and literary constructions in 20th century Bengal. Routledge.
- Srinivasan, D. (2011). Telling Different tales: Possible childhoods in children’s literature. Childhood, 18(3) 316-332.
- Sen, Satadru. (2004). A Juvenile Periphery: The Geographies Of Literary Childhood In Colonial Bengal. The Journal of Colonialism and Colonia History, 5(1) 2004.
- Sen, Satadru. (2005). Colonial Childhoods: The Juvenile Periphery of India, 1850-1945. Anthem Press.