Böcker i Media Dynamics in South Asia-serien

Digital India is shaped by political and economic considerations. This book places Digital India in its local and global contexts and attempts to account for its dynamism, its contestations, its key actors including the State, civil society and foreign governments such as the USA - in other words, the multifaceted shapings of Digital India

Situating it at the intersection of vernacular media production and the infrastructural-political reordering of provincial north India, the book shows that Bhojpuri media's characteristic 'disobedience' is marked by a libidinal excess - simultaneously scandalizing and moralizing - to address the inexact calculi of Bhojpuri speaking region's 'underdevelopment'.