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  index Aap฀Ki฀Adalat (program), 7–8, 204n21 acceleration, 50–51 activists, 29, 98, 138 Advani, L. K., 184 advertising, print, 4, 5, 21, 57–91; for Bharat TVs, 69; for BPL TVs, 78, 91; for Crown TVs, 67; for Dyanora TVs, 67–68; for flat-screen TVs, 84, 89, 91; for J.K. TVs, 58–59; for Onida TVs, 76, 77, 82–83, 91; for Samsung TVs, 88–90; for Solidaire TVs, 72–74; for Sony TVs, 85–88; for Televista TVs, 60–65, 88; for Videocon TVs, 79–81, 91; for Weston TVs, 66, 67, 71 advertising, TV, 6–8, 11, 33–35, 46, 196 Africa, 9, 101, 102, 105, 107, 116 Agarwal, Anook, 133 agency, redefinition of, 200 AIADMK (All-India Dravidian Progressive Party), 28, 48, 148 AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ), 174 AIR (All India Radio), 23, 25–26, 28–29, 30, 51–52 Aiyar, Mani Shankar, 127, 193 Akash Bharati (public broadcasting), 30, 43, 52 Akashvani (voice from the sky), 28–29, 30. See฀ also AIR Alva, Margaret, 147 Ambedkar, B. R., 111 “American way,” 194 Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited (ACBL), 143. See฀also Bachchan, Amitabh Amritsar, 27 Anderson, Benedict, 2, 14–15, 55, 180–81 Andhra Pradesh, 10, 11, 67, 210–11n23 androgyny, 110–11 anticapitalism, 109. See฀also capitalism antiforeign sentiment, 37–38 antiminority sentiment, 37–38 Appadurai, Arjun, 90, 177–78, 199–200 Apte, Vinay, 184–85 Arabian฀Nights,฀The (tales), 153 Asia, 101, 102, 105, 107, 116–17 Asian฀Advertising฀and฀Marketing (trade journal ), 175 Asianet (network), 116 Asian Games, 70–71 AsiaSat (satellite), 18, 117 Asia฀Week (magazine), 141 auteur theory, 151–53 authorship, 153 autonomy, media, 28, 32, 43–44, 49, 51–53 autonomy, nationalist, 23, 50 Azad, Gulam Nabi, 147 Azadi Bachao Andolan (activist organization), 133 Bachchan, Amitabh, 137, 143 Baijal, Anil, 23 Bajpai, Shailaja, 196 Bandung Conference, 107 Bangalore, 137, 138, 142–45 Bank of England, 122 Barker, Chris, 200–201 Baru, Sanjay, 194 Baruah, Amit, 194 Bataille, Georges, 157, 183 09.Index.231-240.Kumar.indd฀฀฀231 10/18/05฀฀฀11:35:36฀AM 232฀ index BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), 4, 17–18, 99, 178 Beal, A. R., 194 beauty pageants, 139–41. See฀also Miss World competition Bedi, Kabir, 175–76 Bedi, Nikki, 19, 155–56, 158, 161–66, 175–80 BEL (Bharat Electronics Limited), 68–69, 70 Beltek TV, 72 Beltran, Luis, 114 Benegal, Shyam, 17 Bengal, 44 Bengali (language), 12 Benson, Wilfred, 95 Bhabha, Homi, 50–51, 117–18 Bharadwaj, H. R., 184 Bhatia, Sidharth, 19 Binatone Electronics, 72 Biographia฀Literaria (Coleridge), 55 BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), 36–38, 42, 45, 48– 49, 181, 184; nationalism and, 132–33, 135–37, 143–45, 147–49 body politic, 110–11 Bofors (company), 42 Bollywood, 16–17, 140 Bombay฀Chat (TV program), 176 Bombay฀Dost (magazine), 159–60, 173 Bose, Subhash Chandra, 111 BPL (company), 76, 78, 79, 82, 84, 91 BPL฀Sarigamalu (TV program), 11 Brazil, 101 Britain, 9, 81–82; colonialism of, 37, 108, 110, 111 Broadcasting Authority of India, 49, 206n49 Broadcast Trust, National, 52 Business฀Day (program), 16 Business฀World, 11 Butalia, Urvashi, 21, 119, 149–50, 154 cable channels, 2, 46, 78 cablewallahs, 4 Cahiers฀du฀Cinema (film journal), 152 Calcom (company), 76 capitalism, 14–15, 97, 116–18, 126, 137; alternatives to, 106–7; criticism of, 93, 101–2, 104; electronic, 2, 22, 88, 120–21, 139–40, 150–54; Western, 93, 105–8 Cartoon Network, 7 caste, 111, 187 Cat Vision (satellite network), 3 CEERI (Central Electronics Engineering Institute ), 57, 70 Center for Media Studies, 146 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 55–56 Chanda, Asok K., 25 Chanda Committee, 49, 51 Chandra, Subhash, 7, 9, 14 Chandra, Yogesh, 188 Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra, 189 Chatterjee, Neel, 124–25 Chatterjee, Partha, 2, 109 Chavan, S. B., 180 Chennai (Madras), 28 Chidambram, P., 127, 128, 136 children, programs for, 10 China, 120, 128 Chinnappa, Nikil, 16 Chopra, Mannika, 146 cinema, 65 citizenship, 38 class, 102, 116; absence of, 103, 109; middle, 41, 85, 105, 122, 129–30, 136 CNN (Cable News Network), 3, 7 Coca-Cola Company, 123, 131 Cohen, Lawrence, 180 Cold War, 93, 97, 101, 108, 194; Marxism and, 103, 105 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 55 colonialism, 16, 50, 102, 104–5, 107–11, 155; Britain and, 37, 108, 110–11; legacies of, 118; neocolonialism and, 116; opposition to, 210n14. See฀also imperialism comedies, 18 commercialization, 33–34 Common Minimum Program, 136 communism, 93, 102, 105–9, 117, 118; opposition to...

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