
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 |
About the Book
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.