Wiring the Nation: Telecommunication, Newspaper-Reportage, and Nation Building in British India, 1850-1930...

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Michael Mann (Professor, Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.)

Wiring the Nation

Telecommunication, Newspaper-Reportage, and Nation Building in British India, 1850-1930

Michael Mann (Professor, Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.)

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OUP India
30 March 2017

Asian history; Colonialism & imperialism; Press & journalism; Postal & telecommunications industries

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.

By: Michael Mann (Professor Professor Humboldt University Berlin Germany.)
Imprint: OUP India
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 506g
ISBN: 9780199472178
ISBN 10: 0199472173
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 30 March 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Professor Michael Mann, Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin.

Reviews for Wiring the Nation: Telecommunication, Newspaper-Reportage, and Nation Building in British India, 1850-1930

Wiring the Nation is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Indian Newspapers. Mann's work in this archive is most welcome and will, one hopes, encourage more young scholars to dig in these understudied trenches. * Priti Joshi, Victorian Studies *