Politics after television : religious nationalism and the reshaping of the Indian public / Arvind Rajagopal.

In January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, the Ramayan, to nationwide audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What resulted was the largest political campaign in post-independence times, around the symbol of Lord Ram,...

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Main Author: Rajagopal, Arvind
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2001.
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