"Modernization of Tradition": Contested Discourses and Negotiated Ideologies of Fairness, Gender, and Morality in the South Indian Media

This dissertation explored the ways in which the everyday life practices of most urban Indians embodied the "modernization of tradition" (Hancock, 1999) and the role that media texts played in facilitating and encouraging this modernization. The research is based on six months of ethnograp...

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Main Author: Ramakrishnan, Srilakshmi
Other Authors: Gilmore, Perry
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194410