Media, modernity, and inequality: Aam Admi in India Inc.

Communication and Power in the Global Era: Orders and Borders

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 54-74

  Chakravartty, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 84906198986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203102077     Document Type: Chapter

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