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Book cover image of Switiching Channels: Ideologies of Television in India by Nilanjan Gupta

Authors: Nilanjan Gupta
ISBN-13: 9780195642049, ISBN-10: 019564204X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: August 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Nilanjan Gupta

Book Synopsis

This is the first full-length study of the current state of television in India. It views the whole history of the medium within the larger perspective of India's post-Independence encounters with modernity.

Table of Contents

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Preface
I'Of The People, By The People'1
IIFrom Programmes To Myths: From Myths To Programmes17
IIIThe Times They Are A-Changin'40
IVThe Borderless Skies62
VNegotiating Modernity86
VIWho's Watching What?110
VIIWhither The Nation?138
Select Reading List149
Index151

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