Television in India: Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change

by Mehta Nalin and Nalin Mehta

Book Overview

This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, India possessed only a single state-owned television channel, but since then there has been a rapid expansion in independent satellite channels which came as a complete break from the statist control of the past. This book explores this transformation, explaining how television, a medium that developed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415546435
• ISBN13: 9780415546430
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"