Divided Media: Politics and Mediated Movements in India [Hardcover]

This book addresses the complex relationship between Indias evolving, emerging media landscape, the political and economic interests of diverse media actors, and movements opposing contentious issues such as market-based economic reforms and religious nationalism.

Suruchi Mazumdar (PhD) is an Associate Professor with O.P. Jindal Global University India. She has teaching and research interests in mediated politics and movements, digital activisms, and everyday digital cultures. She has been part of multiple transdisciplinary collaborative research projects. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as International Journal of Communication, Journalism, Global Media and China, and Television & New Media, and edited volumes.

This book recovers the prehistory of the partisan hybrid digital media landscape using the case of the Singur and Nandigram protests. Through a multilayered analysis, Suruchi Mazumdar shows how the interaction between the complex partisan media and popular grassroots politics has given rise to contemporary politics in India. The book compellingly demonstrates how commercial logic and political logic played out in the medias representation of the populist uprisings and public debates on industrial development, which created the fertile ground to displace the Lefts ideological dominance in the state with the practice of a new politics that was a creative mix of maa-mati-manush with ideological ambiguity.

Anup Kumar, Ph.D. Professor, School of Communication, Cleveland State University.

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In Divided Media, Suruchi Mazumdar provides a historically grounded study of print and digital news media in the state of West Bengal. The crux of the book focuses on an often undel3e