The Indian Periodical Press

Kamra, Sukeshi:
The Indian Periodical Press and the Production of Nationalist Rhetoric / Sukeshi Kamra. - New York, N.Y. [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - ca. 248 S.
ISBN 978-0-230-11659-7
US$ 90,00 / £ 55,00
DDC: 079.54

Beschreibung
This book relates the dramatic story of the struggle that took place between the Indian press and the British government for control of the Indian public sphere between 1870 and 1910. The contest gave the Indian reading publics their first taste of a struggle conducted from within the confines of the law, introduced vocabularies for conceiving counter-discursivity and defined the press and the government as distinct and opposed communities. Sukeshi Kamra deftly shows that the increasingly antagonistic relationship between the press and colonial regime is where and how a nationalist public sphere first developed. [Verlagsinformation]

Aus dem Inhalt
Acknowledgments. ix
Introduction. 1
1. The Verbal Culture of 1857 and the Politics of Fear. 37
2. Law and the Periodical Press in the 1870s: A Culture of Complaint. 67
3. Criminalizing Political Conversation: The 1891 Trial of the Bangavasi. 99
4. The “Infernal Machine” of Propaganda Literature: The Native Press of 1907-10. 127
5. Criminalizing Political Conversation: The Trial of the Pallichitra (1910). 155
Conclusion. 179
Notes. 187
Works Cited. 217
Index. 229

Autorin
SUKESHI KAMRA is an associate professor in the English Department and an associate dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University. She has published a book on the partition of India and articles on nationalist India and Indian literature. Profile page.

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