'If Vox Populi be Vox Dei': Why the Periodical Press is Arresting -- 'Ungoverned Imaginings': The Periodical Press, Government Culture, and the Making of the Indian Public, 1870-1910 -- Native Revolt: Verbal Culture of 1857 and the Politics of Fear -- Law and the Periodical Culture of the 1870s: A Culture of Complaint or Something More? -- Criminalizing Political Conversation (1): The 1891 Trial of the Bangavasi -- The 'Infernal Machine' of Propaganda Literature: The Native Press of 1907-1910 -- Criminalizing Political Conversation (2): The 1910 Trial of the Pallichitra
Summary
"This book makes a case for considering the Indian periodical press as a key forum for the production of nationalist rhetoric. It argues that between the 1870s and 1910, the press was the place in which the notion of 'the public' circulated and where an expansive middle class, and even larger reading audience, was persuaded into believing it had force. Kamra shows that the increasingly antagonistic relationship between the press and colonial regime is where and how a nationalist public sphere first develops"-- Provided by publisher
