Biswajit Das
The Quest for Theory
| Mapping Communication Studies in India |
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Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi and Guy Poitevin
Investigating Communication
| Remooring the Contours of Research |
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PART ONE: CONSTRUCTIONS AND CONFIGURATIONS
Introduction
Fulcrums of Administration
Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury
`Beyond the Reach of Monkeys and Men'? O'Shaughnessy and the Telegraph in India c.1836-56
Dipankar Sinha
Information Society as if Communication Mattered
| The Indian State Revisited |
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Landscapes of Commerce
Vibodh Parthasarathi
Constructing a `New Media' Market
| Merchandising the Talking Machine, c.1900-1912 |
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Maitrayee Chaudhuri
A Question of Choice
| Advertisements, Media and Democracy |
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Arenas of Assimilation
Biswajit Das
Mediating Modernity
| Colonial Discourse and Radio Broadcasting, c.1924-1947 |
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Shanti Kumar
In Search of Autonomy
| The Nationalist Imagination of Public Broadcasting |
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PART TWO: ANATOMIES OF ARBITRATION
Introduction
Invasion and Intrusion
Uma Chakravarti
State, Market and Freedom of Expression
| Women and Electronic Media |
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G Krishna Reddy
Forging Public Opinion
| The Press, Television and Electoral Campaigns in Andhra Pradesh |
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Interaction and Appropriation
Bernard Bel
Personal and Social Communication
| Two Instances of Electronic Mail |
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Jitendra Maid, Pandit Padalghare and Guy Poitevin
Communication for Socio-Cultural Action
| `Is the Discourse "on" or "off"?' |
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Interrogation and Contestation
J[um]oel Ruet
The Political Meaning of a River
| Intellectuals and the Economy of Knowledge Around the Narmada |
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Pradip N Thomas
That Persistent `Other'
| The Political Economy of Copyright in India |
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