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Examines how cultural imaginations of national identity have been transformed by the rapid growth of satellite and cable television in postcolonial India. This book traces the changing status of the television set as a cultural commodity in postcolonial India, and outlines the role of vernacular media in the discourse of electronic capitalism.

Gandhi Meets Primetime

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      Publisher: MO - University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 12/14/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780252072444, 978-0252072444
      ISBN10: 0252072448

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      Book Synopsis
      Examines how cultural imaginations of national identity have been transformed by the rapid growth of satellite and cable television in postcolonial India. This book traces the changing status of the television set as a cultural commodity in postcolonial India, and outlines the role of vernacular media in the discourse of electronic capitalism.

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