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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mann, Michael, 1959- [author].

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telegraph--India--History--19th century.

Telegraph.

Telegraph--India--History--20th century.

Press--India--History--19th century.

Press.

Press--India--History--20th century.

Nation-building--India--History--19th century.

Nation-building.

Nation-building--India--History--20th century.

History.

India.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 298 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-292) and index.

ISBN:

9780199472178

0199472173

OCLC:

969445176

Publisher Number:

99972271733