My first point, Bendict Anderson's idea of "Imagined Community" cannot be uncritically transposed to the contexts that enabled the emergence of a Unified market known as Inida for the simple reason the lingusitci divide was 'extreme' and challening (Only Read Ram Guha's popular work on Post-Independent India).
Second, Print Capitalism as he ahs mentioned is an idea which we needs to engage, I agree. Thirdly, let me suggest you, may be you have read it, two important works, Robbin Jeffrey on Newspaper revolution and Sevanthi Ninan's recent work on Hindi Media, where the 'idea of "public sphere' is the central concept on which the work stands regards, prasad On 7/4/08, ranju radha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi damodar, > > i have no problem with the critique of public sphere. > in fact the rather harsh criticsm of 'public sphere comes from > dalits/women/adivasis... > > wht i m trying to point is the way capitalist expansion of social relations > make use of communication technology and in Andersonia terms how print > capitalism enable us to imagine "community". u cant completly negate that > possibilty. > > come back to it later > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
