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id	eprints-39027
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	Abstract: Digital India, the government’s flagship programme, at first glance is a radical departure from the past and a welcome step forward to digitise the country’s faltering infrastructure. However, as this chapter argues, seen through a post-development lens, the launch of Digital India can also be seen as a continuation of past governmental policies that hark back to the era of India’s first Prime Minister and the continuation of such programmes thereafter, policies which used the medium of mass media ostensibly as a tool for development but ultimately as a mechanism of control. From the beginnings of television history in India and tracing its growth, this chapter shows that the policies of the present government, has its echoes in the past and development is still the rhetoric used to control the country’s increasing population.
format	Journal Article
author	Batabyal, Somnath
author_facet	Batabyal, Somnath
authorStr	Batabyal, Somnath
author_letter	Batabyal, Somnath
title	From Nehru to Modi: Understanding the History of Indian Television Through A Post Development Lens
publisher	Lattice Science Publications
publishDate	2023
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/39027/