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Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia

Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia

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Author:Edited by P Thirumal and K A Nuaiman
ISBN 13:9789354428920
Binding:Softcover
Language:English
Year:2025
Pages:416pp., 20.6cm
Published On:22nd April 2025
Subject:Communication Mass Media and Journalism

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CONTENTS: Abbreviations, List of Images and Figures, Acknowledgements, Publisher’s Acknowledgements, Foreword-Arjun Appadurai, 1. Introduction-P Thirumal and K A Nuaiman 2. Telegraphy and Journalism in Colonial India, c. 1830s to 1900s-Amelia Bonea, 3. Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities- Brian Larkin, 4. A Community in Print: Islam and Print Culture in Malabar, South India-K A Nuaiman, 5. Listening to the Sonorous: Digital Archiving as a Political Practice-P Thirumal and Sai Amulya Komarraju, 6. From Invisibility to Hypervisibility and Back? The Lost Same-sex Object in Media History in India-Ashley Tellis, 7. Cast Out Worlds in Print: Iyothee Thass (1845–1914) and the Tamil Public Sphere- Dickens Leonard, 8. ‘Reality Must Improve’: The Perversity of Expertise and the Belatedness of Indian Development Television-William Mazzarella, 9. City as a Continuum: Cinematic Geography of Kochi in Malayalam Cinema-Carmel Christy K J, 10. Lampooning the Raj: The Cartoon in Pre-independence Tamil Journalism-A R Venkatachalapathy, 11. The Machine in the Colony: Technology, Politics, and the Typography of Devanagari in the Early Years of Mechanisation-Vaibhav Singh, 12. Politics of Script Selection and Meetei Identity, 1978–1979-Thongam Bipin, 13. The Late Colonial Telugu Textbook: A Material Embodiment of Dissent, Debate, and Knowledge-Sasi Kiran R Mallam, Notes on the Contributors, Index.