Outside the Lettered City

Outside the Lettered City
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780199394395
ISBN-13 : 0199394393
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Book Synopsis Outside the Lettered City by : Manishita Dass

Download or read book Outside the Lettered City written by Manishita Dass and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title traces how middle-class Indians responded to the rise of the cinema as a popular form of mass entertainment in early twentieth-century India. It draws on archival research to uncover aspirations and anxieties about the new medium, which opened up tantalising possibilities for nationalist mobilisation on the one hand and troubling challenges to the cultural authority of Indian elites on the other.


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