This volume examines the media in the Indian public sphere and its interplay with politics, society and culture, and analyzes its transition from the colonial to the post-colonial period

Arvind Rajagopal is associate professor in the Departments of Media, Culture and Communication, Sociology, and Social and Cultural Analysis at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University

• Acknowledgements, Publisher's Acknowledgements, List of Figures, Preface;
  Introduction: The Public Sphere in India: Structure and Transformation (Arvind Rajagopal);
  Section I: Formation of a Colonial Public Sphere;


• 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.: Transmission (Ranajit Guha);The Indian Ecumene: An Indigenous Public Sphere (Christopher Bayly);The Politics of Popular Images: From Cow Protection to M.K. Gandhi, 1890-1950 (Christopher Pinney);Obtaining Moral Consensus in a Law and Order Society (Rajeev Dhavan);
  Section II: The National PopularRedefining Obscenity and Aesthetics in Print (Charu Gupta);The Hindi Political Sphere (Francesca Orsini);"Woman-Oriented" Narratives and the New Indian Woman (Purnima Mankekar);


• 8.9.10.11.12.: Who is it that is Singing? Shot-Music-Speech (Aniket Jaaware);
  Section III: National Developmentalism and the Tensions of a Mediatic Infrastructure;The Mahatma Didn't Like the Movies and Why it Matters: Indian Broadcasting Policy, 1920s-1990s (Robin Jeffrey);Subliminal Charge: How Hindi-Language Newspaper Expansion Affects India (Peter Friedlander, Robin Jeffrey and Sanjay Seth);A Split Public in the Making and the Unmaking of the Ramjanmabhumi Movement (Arvind Rajagopal);Forging Public Opinion: The Press, Television and Electoral Campaigns in Andhra Pradesh (G. Krishna Reddy);
  


• Section IV: Emergent Orders: Localization, Consumerism, Digital Culture;