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词条 Enver Ahmed
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  1. Life and career

  2. Books by Ahmed

  3. References

  4. External links

Enver Ahmed (1909–1992), pen name Ahmed, was an Indian cartoonist and creator of Chandu, the turbanned, paunchy central character of a popular cartoon strip in the Hindustan Times.[1]

Life and career

Ahmed was born in Rawalpindi (then in India) in 1909 and graduated in science from the Government College in Lahore. He worked in a sugar mill before joining the advertising section of The Pioneer in Lucknow. His talent was spotted by Desmond Young, the editor, and he became the paper's cartoonist. Since the Pioneer was a pro-British paper, Ahmed ultimately decided to move on to The Dawn, where too he was not at ease with the paper's politics, which supported the Muslim League.

In 1946, Ahmed moved to the Hindustan Times, where he succeeded the cartoonist Shankar.[2] Accortding to cartoonist Kamal Sarkar, the years between 1946 and 1950 saw Ahmed at his peak, a period when he drew with gusto, and his cartoons served a political purpose.[3] In 1947, Ahmed's criticism of the Muslim League in his cartoons led to threats from Islamic fundamentalist groups. According to his obituary in The Independent, none other than Mahatma Gandhi advised Ahmed to leave India immediately. Accordingly, Ahmed went to England where he continued to contribute to his paper. He returned in 1948 and remained the paper's lead cartoonist till his retirement in 1961, after which he continued his association through his comic strip 'Chandu'.[4] This earthy character, dressed in a loincloth and modelled after a friend of Ahmed's, was the 'first popular social comic' by an Indian cartoonist, according to cartoonist E. P. Unny.[2]

Books by Ahmed

Ahmed (1951). [https://books.google.com/books/about/Ahmed_s_political_pot_pourri.html?id=eLolOAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Ahmed's Political Pot-pourri: A Collection of Cartoons and Strips]. Foreword by C. Rajagopalachari. Hindustan Times, 1951

References

1. ^{{cite news|last=Singh|first=Kuldip|title=Obituary: Enver Ahmed|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-enver-ahmed-1533502.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=16 July 1992}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=Unny, E. P.|editor=Asharani Mathur|title=The Indian media: illusion, delusion, and reality : essays in honour of Prem Bhatia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwhlAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=23 April 2012|date=1 April 2006|publisher=Rupa|chapter=The Indian Cartoon: An Overview}}
3. ^{{cite journal|last=Sarkar|first=Kamal|title=Cartoonists of the Fifties|journal=Vidura|year=1970|volume=7|series=100 Years of Indian Cartoons|url=https://books.google.com/?id=0pFZAAAAMAAJ&q=ahmed&dq=ahmed|accessdate=23 April 2012|page=39|publisher=Press Institute of India}}
4. ^{{cite journal|title=Obituary|journal=India Today|year=1992|volume=17|issue= 13–23|url=https://books.google.com/?id=K2opAQAAIAAJ&q=%22enver+ahmed%22&dq=%22enver+ahmed%22}}

External links

  • Enver Ahmed at WorldCat
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3 : Indian cartoonists|1992 deaths|1909 births

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