India's State-run Media: Broadcasting, Power, and Narrative

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India's State-run Media presents a new perspective on broadcasting by bringing together two neglected areas of research in media studies in India - the intertwined genealogies of sovereignty, public, religion, and nation in radio and television, and the spatiotemporal dynamics of broadcasting into a single analytic inquiry. It argues that the spatiotemporalities of broadcasting and the inter-relationships among the public, religion, and nation can be traced to an organizing concept that shaped India's late colonial and postcolonial histories - sovereignty. The book contends that studies of television have glossed over the meanings, experiences, and practices of the religious in televisual narratives and viewers' interpretations of television programs. Drawing on the philosophical writings of Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault, connecting their ideas with media, cultural, and religious studies, it examines cultural discourses, power relations, repertoire of meanings, social events, etc. in broadcasting in late colonial and postcolonial India. 01.0_pp_i_iv_Frontmatter 02.0_pp_v_vi_Dedication 03.0_pp_vii_viii_Contents 04.0_pp_ix_x_List_of_Figures_and_Tables 05.0_pp_xi_xiv_Acknowledgements 06.0_pp_1_23_Introduction 07.0_pp_24_62_Broadcasting_Spatiotemporalities_and_Power 08.0_pp_63_82_Doordarshan_Literary_Drama_and_Narrative_Identity 09.0_pp_83_106_Televisual_Representations_of_Socio-Spatial_Conflicts_and_the_ReligiousSecular_Imaginaries 10.0_pp_107_126_Patriotism_and_Its_Avatars_Tracking_the_NationalGlobal_Dialectic_in_Music_Videos_and_Television_Comm 11.0_pp_127_158_Remembering_Doordarshan_Figurations_of_Memories_and_Nostalgia_on_Blogs_YouTube_and_in_Oral_Interview 12.0_pp_159_176_Epilogue 13.0_pp_177_204_Bibliography 14.0_pp_205_210_Index