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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
      Published 12/14/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780252072444
      978-0252072444
      ISBN-10 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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