Television in India : satellites, politics, and cultural change

Abstract

Introduction: satellite television, identity and globalisation in contemporary India / Nalin Mehta - The Mahatma didn’t like the movies and why it matters: Indian broadcasting policy, 1920s–1990s / Robin Jeffrey - India talking: politics, democracy and news television / Nalin Mehta - Politics without television: the BSP and the Dalit counter-public sphere / Maxine Loynd - Muslims on television: news and representation on satellite channels / Roshni Sengupta - ‘Give me a vote, and I will give you a TV set’: television in Tamil Nadu politics / Maya Ranganathan - Soaps, serials and the CPI(M), cricket beats them all: cricket and television in contemporary India / Boria Majumdar - Bowling with the wind: a television producer’s view on cricket and satellite TV in contemporary India / Peter HuttonPETER - Changing contexts, new texts: ‘‘inserting’’ TV into the transforming text of post-1980 Bengali cinema / Sharmistha Gooptu