Introduction: Dr. Partha Bhattacharjee, and Ph.D. scholar. Mr. Rounak Gupta, from the Department of Literature and Languages, Easwari School of Liberal Arts has published a book chapter named Comics and the Global South: Methodologies from and within Majority Worlds.

A brief introduction about the book or a description of the book chapter: Archival research helps recover materials related to lost or marginalised art forms of tribal and indigenous communities. Projects like the Famine Tales from India and Britain Project have created new possibilities for interdisciplinary study. This essay analyses the graphic anthology Famine Tales: A Graphic Anthology, which reinterprets Patua Scroll famine narratives from England and India through comics. Drawing on comics studies, digital archival studies, and postcolonial studies, it examines how Pata Chitra is used as a stylistic template to create new narratives. The paper argues that these adaptations recover material memory and embed decolonial meanings, where style itself becomes a narrative that amplifies the message of decolonization.

Keywords: Famine Tales: A Graphic Anthology; Decoloniality; Pata Chitra; Remediation; Tressage

Significance for Audience: In this chapter, we focus on how narrative drawing forms like Patachitra are repositories of indigenous knowledge as well as historical documents of human struggle. On the other hand, comics, born out of those stories have showcased the same indigenous knowledge across culture and time. Their interventions, while stretching the formal limitations of the comics form, such as panelling, framing, gutters, and tressage, have connected several stories of human struggle in India across different time and space.

Recommended Readers of this Book Chapter: Scholars working on comics, Indian indigenous art and culture, postcoloniality, and decoloniality.

About the Chapter: Name: Comics and the Global South: Methodologies from and within Majority Worlds
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 978 94 6270 504 3
Launch Date: February, 2026
Edition: 1st

Link to the Book Chapter Publication: https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.31131063.8