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Wiring the nation : telecommunication, newspaper-reportage, and nation building in British India, 1850-1930 / Michael Mann.
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Mann, Michael, 1959-
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Description
xxii, 298 pages ; 23 cm
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HE8374 .M37 2017
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Subject(s)
Telegraph
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India
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History
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19th century
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Telegraph
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India
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History
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20th century
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Press
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India
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History
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19th century
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Press
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India
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History
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20th century
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Nation-building
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India
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History
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19th century
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Nation-building
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India
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History
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20th century
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Summary note
Generally, the history of telegraphy has been written from a technological perspective. In contrast, this book specialises on the social, cultural, and political consequences of the telegraph. British India between 1850 and 1930 serves as an example in how far and to what extent telecommunication influenced, shaped and transformed the British Indian multiple public spheres as to the emergence of an all-India public sphere after the turn of the nineteenth century. As an intrinsic part of this transformation, newspaper reportage in British India underwent massive changes as that was the case in many other countries of the world in the Age of Globalisation. It is this global context which places the study not just in an Indian national context, but in an international setting. Against this background it is also argued that the emergence of the Indian national movement took place in a worldwide connected and entangled communication context that deeply influenced the press landscape of British India as it did the imagination of an Indian nation in an internationally organised world.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-292) and index.
Contents
Media revolutions, globalization, and public spheres
Girdling the globe
Public spheres in British India, c. 1780-1880
Newspapers and news agencies owned by Indians in British India, c. 1880-1930
Forging an all-India public sphere: the developmental stage, 1904-21
Forging an all-India public sphere: the mature stage, 1928-31.
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ISBN
9780199472178 ((hardback))
0199472173 ((hardback))
LCCN
2016363380
OCLC
969445176
Other standard number
99972271733
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