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Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media: Mediating Conflict and Social Change book cover

1st Edition

Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media Mediating Conflict and Social Change

By Teresa Joseph Copyright 2022
194 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

194 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

194 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This book explores Gandhi’s engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alternative modes of communication in South Africa and India. This volume elucidates his interactions... Read more

List of figures Preface 1. Media before Gandhi: colonial communication strategies and contestations 2. The Mahatma, the medium and the message 3. Mediated interventions in South Africa 4. Speaking truth to power: Gandhi and the Press in India 5. Epilogue: mediating conflict and social change: Gandhi’s way. Bibliography

Biography

Teresa Joseph is Associate Professor in Political Science and Director of the Centre for Gandhian Studies at Alphonsa College, Pala, Kerala, India. Besides having written a number of articles on politics, international relations, mass media, and Mahatma Gandhi, she is the author of Reporting Nuclear Pakistan: Security Perceptions and the Indian Press and co-editor of Deliberative Democracy: Understanding the Indian Experience and Conflict Resolution in South Asia.

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