The Imagined Reign of the Iron Lecturer
Village Broadcasting in Colonial India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3633726 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joselyn Zivin (Drake University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 717-738 |
| Publication date | 1998-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x98003126 |
| OpenAlex | W2146702959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
In the decade preceding the consolidation of All India Radio (circa 1936), there was an alternative model for broadcasting in India. It rejected the premise that there was a national audience, a national culture, or a national politics, or that radio's key function was to create them. In these negations of broadcasting's nation-statist implications, this model for Indian radio departed from the standard of the 1930s for the mass medium in the Western democracies and authoritarian states alike. Decreeing that discrete local services were the natural correspondent to the subcontinent's fractured social landscape, the model affronted the legitimacy of Indian nationalism. In this it mirrored the conservative face of colonial rule
Archaeology · Authoritarianism · BENGAL · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Democracy · Legitimacy · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Premise · Reign · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · South Asian Cinema and Culture
Radio, Citizenship, and the "Sound Standards" of a Newly Independent India
Radio, Cinema, and the South Asian Soundscape
The Postcolony and Its Radio
"This Is Jerusalem Calling"
Introduction – South Asian diasporas and the BBC World Service
The BBC Empire Service
Partitioning the BBC
The Mahatma didn’t like the movies and why it matters
Métissage on the Airwaves
The Ancient and Modern Power of Islamic Sermons in Contemporary Pakistan
Hindi, Urdu or Hindustani? Revisiting ‘National Language’ Debates through Radio Broadcasting in Late Colonial India
Digital leisure for development
Broadcasting, space, and sovereignty in India
Airing imperium
Radio and the Raj
Manly Machines and Homely Objects
The consumption of radio broadcast technologies in Hong Kong, c.1930–1960 1
The troubled passage from ‘village communities’ to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia
Speaking of news
Subversive Sound
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,91 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |