The Dislocations and Transgressions in Bhajju Shyam’s The London Jungle Book (2004)

The paper explores the multiple transgressions and border-crossings elaborated in visual travelogue London Jungle Book (2004), by Bhajju Shyam, a Pardhan-Gond artist produced Tara Books, an independent artists’ collective specialising experimental literature. discusses cultural history of “Pardhan-Gond art” dislocations relocations art form contemporary world. argues that personal experience appears to reflect these shifting categorizations, movements locations performance form. images metaphors displacement transgression have varied connotations as they reveal complex mechanisms travel mobility text also articulates response social, political economic conditions surrounding production circulation his art, through reimagining homeland, ties own identity. In paradoxical sense, does not symbolise uprootedness or detachment artist, but it brings into effect, with more immediacy, identity Furthermore, materiality crossover challenges notions media, genre readership, associated picturebook format, destabilising categories assumptions literary genre.