Wiring the nation : telecommunication, newspaper-reportage, and nation building in British India, 1850-1930 / Michael Mann.

Author
Mann, Michael, 1959- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Description
xxii, 298 pages ; 23 cm

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780199472178 ((hardback))
    • 0199472173 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016363380
    OCLC
    969445176
    Other standard number
    • 99972271733
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