SUNY series in the History of Books, Publishing, and the Book Trades
The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India
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SUNY series in the History of Books, Publishing, and the Book Trades
The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India
About This Book
Shortlisted for the 2022 George A. and Jeanne S. DeLong Book History Book Prize presented by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Winner of the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize presented by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals In Empire News, Priti Joshi examines the neglected archive of English-language newspapers from India to unpack the maintenance and tensions of empire. Focusing on the period between 1845 and 1860, she analyzes circulationâof newspapers and news, of peoples and ideasâand newspapers' coverage and management of crises. The book explores three moments of colonial crisis. The sensational trial of East India Company vs. Jyoti Prasad in Agra in 1851 as the Kohinoor diamond is exhibited in London's Hyde Park is a case lost but for colonial newspapers. In these accounts, the trial raises the specter of Warren Hastings and the costs of empire. The Uprising of 1857 was a geopolitical crisis, but for the Indian news media it was a story simultaneously of circulation and blockage, of contraction and expansion, of colonial media confronting its limits and innovating. Finally, Joshi traces circuits of exchange between Britain and India and across media platforms, including Dickens's Household Words, where the empire's mofussil (margin) appears in an unrecognized guise during and after the Uprising. By attending to these fascinating accounts in the Anglo-Indian press, Joshi illuminates the circulation and reproduction of colonial narratives and informs our understanding of the functioning of empire.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Note on Usage and Transliteration
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Circulating Crisis: Colonial Newspapers and Print Culture
- Chapter 1 Bibliographical, Periodical, and Imperial Codes
- Chapter 2 Through a Glass Darkly: The Great Exhibition and the Great Indian Contractor
- Chapter 3 The Uprising in the Anglo-Indian Press
- Chapter 4 Wanderings and Textual Travels
- Conclusion Mofussil News
- Appendix Press Regulations and Significant Events in Indian Press History, 1780â1857
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover