TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kamra,Sukeshi
TI  - The Indian periodical press and the production of nationalist rhetoric
SN  - 9780230396487:
U1  - 079.54 21st
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - PRESS AND POLITICS
KW  - INDIA
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - 19th CENTURY
KW  - 20th CENTURY
KW  - NATIONALISM IN THE PRESS
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction: the periodical press, government culture, and  the making of the Indian public, 1870-1910 --  The verbal culture of 1857 and the politics of fear --  Law and the periodical press in the 1870s: a culture of complaint -- Criminalizing political conversation:  the 1891 trial of the Bangavasi  -- The "Infernal Machine" of propaganda literature: the Indian press of 1907-1910 -- Criminalizing political conversation: the trial of the Pallichitra (1910) -- Conclusion: of the Indian press and the colonial government
N2  - "This book makes a case for considering the Indian periodical press as a key forum for the production of nationalist rhetoric. It argues that between the 1870s and 1910, the press was the place in which the notion of 'the public' circulated and where an expansive middle class, and even larger reading audience, was persuaded into believing it had force. Kamra shows that the increasingly antagonistic relationship between the press and colonial regime is where and how a nationalist public sphere first develops"--
ER  -