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	The stories evolved with time and portrayed the changing face of India. While beginning with dacoits in deep [[ravine]]s and the small town of Jaigarh, Bahadur later moved to tackling themes such as [[espionage]]. The town itself moved from being a small sleepy town to a modern city.{{citation needed\|date=September 2019}}		The stories evolved with time and portrayed the changing face of India. While beginning with dacoits in deep [[ravine]]s and the small town of Jaigarh, Bahadur later moved to tackling themes such as [[espionage]]. The town itself moved from being a small sleepy town to a modern city.{{citation needed\|date=September 2019}}

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{{short description|Indian comic strip}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox comics character 
|image=Indrajal comics 38 cover.jpg
|imagesize=200
|caption=
|character_name=Bahadur
|real_name=
|publisher=[[Indrajal Comics]]
|debut=1976
|creators=[[Abid Surti]]
|alliances= Citizen's Security Force, Mukhia (local village headman), Lakhan, Sukhia (police officer)<ref name="hero">{{cite web | title = Internationalhero.co.uk | url = http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/b/bahadur.htm | accessdate = 23 September 2006| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20061002065303/http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/b/bahadur.htm| archivedate= 2 October 2006 | url-status=live}}</ref>
|aliases=The Brave Man [http://www.bahadurbela.com/ www.bahadurbela.com]
}}

'''Bahadur''' (meaning '''The Brave Man''') is a comic book superhero published by [[Indrajal Comics]] and created by [[Aabid Surti]] in 1976. Although it had been initially created by Aabid Surti a few years earlier, it was finally offered to Indrajal Comics. Aabid Surti was at that time freelancing for [[Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.]]. After he moved on, [[Jagjit Uppal]] took over the task. The artwork was illustrated by Govind Brahmania<ref name="aabid">{{cite web|title=Aabid Surti's website |url=http://www.aabidsurti.com/comics.htm |accessdate=23 September 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310204743/http://www.aabidsurti.com/comics.htm |archivedate=10 March 2007 }}</ref> and later by his son, [[B Pramod]].

The comics were published in various languages including [[Hindi]], [[English language|English]] and [[Bengali language|Bengali]]. Besides regular comics, the series was also featured in dailies and weeklies along with other comic heroes.

==Characters==

===Bahadur===
The comic strip was created in December, 1976. [[Dacoity]] was at its worst in India in the 1970s<ref name="flonnet">{{cite web| title= Flonnet.com| url= http://www.flonnet.com/fl2225/stories/20051216006712900.htm| accessdate= 23 September 2006| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20061016232625/http://www.flonnet.com/fl2225/stories/20051216006712900.htm| archivedate= 16 October 2006| url-status=dead| df= dmy-all}}</ref> and the Bahadur series focussed a lot on dacoits.<ref name="nasscom">{{cite web|title=NASSCOM Animation summit |url=http://www.animationxpress.com/anex/y2k5/headlines/anex149.htm |accessdate=23 September 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060709100006/http://www.animationxpress.com/anex/y2k5/headlines/anex149.htm |archivedate=9 July 2006 }}</ref>

Bahadur himself was the son of a dacoit Bhairav Singh, who died in combat with Police. Bahadur, then a teenager, was adopted by Vishal, the police officer who shot Bhairav Singh.<ref name="ipcomics">{{cite web | title = Ipcomics website | url = http://www.ipcomics.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=2397&sid=77f729e6af1ed1a0be641142e889e3bb | accessdate = 23 September 2006}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

===Citizen's Security Force (CSF)===
Upon growing up, Bahadur set up the Citizen's Security Force or the Hindi translation Naagrik Suraksha Dal (NASUD) that aids the police in combating dacoits. Though Bahadur dealt with many kinds of villains, he displayed a much softer corner towards dacoits trying to rehabilitate them.<ref name="hindu">{{cite news | title = Hindu.com | url = http://www.hindu.com/yw/2004/05/22/stories/2004052200020100.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040820113017/http://www.hindu.com/yw/2004/05/22/stories/2004052200020100.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = 20 August 2004 | accessdate = 23 September 2006 | location=Chennai, India | work = [[The Hindu]] | date=22 May 2004}}</ref> One of his assistants Lakhan was also a reformed dacoit. After surrendering to the police, he started helping Bahadur in curbing crime.

===Bela===
Bela is Bahadur's love interest in the comic series and very skilled in [[martial arts]]. She assists Bahadur in his missions against the villains. Whenever, Bahadur would ask Bela to go out with him Bela's favorite reply was "Neki, aur puchh, puchh".

===Others===
The other prominent characters featuring regularly in the series were Sukhiya, Mukhiya and Lakhan. While Sukhiya was a policeman, Mukhiya (meaning head of the village in [[Hindi]]) was the village leader.

Bahadur also got a dog Chammiya in some of the later stories.

==Evolution==
[[File:Bahadur2.jpg|125px|left]]
The stories evolved with time and portrayed the changing face of India. While beginning with dacoits in deep [[ravine]]s and the small town of Jaigarh, Bahadur later moved to tackling themes such as [[espionage]]. The town itself moved from being a small sleepy town to a modern city.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

Aabid Surti conceived of Bahadur and started the comic strip in 1976. "Bennett, Coleman & Co wanted me to create an Indian character that could take on the popularity of the four foreign comics that ruled the market in India then—The Phantom, Mandrake, Flash Gordon and Tarzan," he says. "During that time, the Chambal Valley was becoming increasingly notorious, and there were exhortations to people to group together to fight crime. So I developed the character of Bahadur as someone who helps create a citizens' police force to fight the dacoits."{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

Surti has an interesting explanation for why Bahadur sports a saffron kurta and jeans. "A kurta and saffron were symbols of Indianness. And jeans were a Western import and indicated progress. Hence, the combination," he says. "In fact, I have showed Bahadur and his girlfriend, Bela, in a live-in relationship—something unheard of in those times. But it was very well accepted by the audience."{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

Though Bahadur's portrayal also changed with time as the artists drawing the series changed, Bahadur's appearance remained the same until 1986, when his trade mark long-hair chopped to shorter & a neat look, which gave him a necessary urban look, and his outfit was changed from an orange [[kurta]] to a tight-fitting pink [[long-sleeved T-shirt]].{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}
This series stopped in April 1990 when Times of India cancelled the Indrajal Comics that year.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}
Mukhiya had a habit of saying "Kasam Ganga maiya ki" for everything.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

==References==

{{reflist}}
'''Blog post''' : http://dara-indrajal.blogspot.com/2007/07/bahadur-brave.html

'''Article''': http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Review/The_Ghost_Still_Walks/articleshow/3089506.cms

==External links==
* [http://www.bahadurbela.com Official Website]

{{Wiktionary|Appendix:Bahadur}}

[[Category:Indian comic strips]]
[[Category:1976 comics debuts]]
[[Category:Indian comics characters]]
[[Category:Comics characters introduced in 1976]]
[[Category:Adventure comics]]
[[Category:Crime comics]]
[[Category:Fictional Indian people]]
[[Category:Fictional portrayals of police departments in India]]
[[Category:Fictional Indian police officers]]
[[Category:Comics superheroes]]

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