Radio in British India: Regulation, censorship and propaganda, 1927-47

This book will argue that the British installed and controlled Indian radio, using it as a tool to prop up the colonial regime. Concessions made to Indian cultural styles, social aspirations or fluctuating needs of listeners had to fit foremostly into the colonial schema. Strikingly, the main edifice of Indian radio was modelled on the authoritarian Soviet pattern, both the semi-autonomous British and commercial American systems were rejected. The monograph is a thematic analysis of three a...