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Author Mann, Michael, author

Title Wiring the nation : telecommunication, newspaper-reportage, and nation building in British India, 1850-1930 / Michael Mann
Edition First edition
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Contents Media revolutions, globalization, and public spheres -- Girdling the globe -- Public spheres in British India, c. 1780-1880 -- Newspapers and news agencies owned by Indians in British India, c. 1880-1930 -- Forging an all-India public sphere: the developmental stage, 1904-21 -- Forging an all-India public sphere: the mature stage, 1928-31
Summary Analyses the social, cultural and political consequences of the telegraph in British India between 1850 and 1930. It demonstrates in how far the telegraph influenced and changed newspaper reportage in British India and, at the same time, to what extend it influenced the Indian national movement after the turn of the nineteenth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 22, 2017)
Subject Telecommunication -- India -- History -- 19th century
Telecommunication -- Social aspects -- India -- History -- 19th century
Reporters and reporting -- India -- History -- 19th century
Politics and government.
Reporters and reporting.
Telecommunication.
Telecommunication -- Social aspects.
SUBJECT India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
India -- Politics and government -- 1857-1919. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064941
Subject India.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199088843
0199088845
9780199472178
0199472173