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100			_aRajagopal, Arvind _917222
245			_aPolitics after television: _breligious nationalism and the reshaping of the Indian public
260			_aUnited Kingdom _bCambridge University Press _c2001
300			_aviii, 393 p.
365			_aINR _b00.00
520			_aIn January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, The Ramayana, 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, led by Hindu nationalists. The complexion of Indian politics was irrevocably changed thereafter. In this book, Arvind Rajagopal analyses this extraordinary series of events. While audiences may have thought they were harking back to an epic golden age, Hindu nationalist leaders were embracing the prospects of neoliberalism and globalisation. Television was the device that hinged these movements together, symbolising the new possibilities of politics, at once more inclusive and authoritarian. Simultaneously, this study examines how the larger historical context was woven into and changed the character of Hindu nationalism. (https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/politics-after-television-hindu-nationalism-and-the-reshaping-of-the-public-in-india-arvind-rajagopal/3394371?ean=9780521648394)
650			_aTelevision in Politics-India _917223
650			_aElections-India _917224
650			_aMass Media-Political Aspects-India _917225
650			_aNationalism-Religious Aspects-India _917226
650			_aImmigrants-United States-Hindu Influence _917227
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