1st Edition

Media and Nation Building in Twentieth-Century India Life and Times of Ramananda Chatterjee

By Kalyan Chatterjee Copyright 2020
154 Pages
by Routledge India

154 Pages
by Routledge India

154 Pages
by Routledge India

This book profiles twentieth-century India through the life and times of Ramananda Chatterjee – journalist, influencer, nationalist. Through a reconstruction of his history, the book highlights the oft-forgotten role of media in the making of the idea of India. It shows how early twentieth-century colonial India was a curious melee of ideas and people – a time of rising... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Ramananda Chatterjee and the Nation 3. Ramananda: The Man 4. Ramananda: His Journals 5. Ramananda: His Journals 6. Ramananda and the Left 7. The Scientific Spirit 8. The Nation and Its Constitution 9. Ramananda’s Contemporary Relevance

Biography

Kalyan Chatterjee is Professor at Amity School of Communication, Amity University, India. He has worked as a journalist for over two decades, first at United News of India news agency and then at Deccan Herald newspaper, covering politics and government. He was awarded the K. K. Birla Fellowship in 1996 and has been teaching mass communication since 2002.