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Presenting a communicational perspective on the British empire in India during the 20th century, the book seeks to examine how, and explain why, British proconsuls, civil servants and even the monarch George V, as well as Indian nationalists, interacted with the media, primarily British and American, and with what consequences.

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This book is a nice piece of media history of the British Empire's 'peripetia' starting at the Empire's heyday shortly before the First World or Great War and ending with British India's independence shortly after the Second World War. With its meticulous source analysis and the variety of sources on British India's and the Empire's perception in Britain and the US, the monograph hints at a desideratum, namely the perception of British rule in South Asia according to English newspapers owned by Indians and local language newspapers. - HistLit Kaul's essays usefully integrate Indian history with media history, and will be read profitably by those working in both fields. She makes a significant contribution to the wider recent attempt by historians to write the mass media into 'mainstream' histories, rather than treat it as a subject for separate study. - The Round Table

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Chandrika Kaul is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her research interests include the British media and empire, 1850-1950, modern Indian history and politics, globalization, and, communications in world history. She is the author of the first detailed monograph examining British press coverage of India entitled Reporting the Raj: The British Press and India (2003). She has also edited Media and the British Empire (2006, 2013) and Explorations in Modern Indian History and the Media (2009) and, co-edited International Communications and Global News Networks: Historical Perspectives (2011).

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