
Politics After Television
Arvind Rajagopal
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Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India
by Arvind Rajagopal, Arvind Rajaopal
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Winner of the 2003 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize In January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, the Ramayan, to nationwide audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What resulted was the largest political campaign in post-independence times, around the symbol of Lord Ram, led by Hindu nationalists.
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