000			02519cam a2200289 4500
001			6640
010			_a 2016363380
020			_a0199472173 (hardback)
020			_a9780199472178 (hardback)
100	1		_aMann, Michael, _d1959- _e
245	1	0	_aWiring the nation : _btelecommunication, newspaper-reportage, and nation building in British India, 1850-1930 / _cMichael Mann.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew Delhi : _bOxford University Press, _c2017.
300			_axxii, 298 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-292) and index.
505			_aMedia 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. _g _r _t
520	8		_aGenerally, 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.
650		0	_aNation-building _zIndia _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aNation-building _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPress _zIndia _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aPress _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aTelecommunication systems _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aTelegraph _zIndia _xHistory _y19th century.
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