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The Raj in radio wars
Media History Pub Date : 2019-07-17 , DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2019.1633911
Diya Gupta

This paper draws on broadcast transcripts created by multilingual BBC monitors during the Second World War—which have received little scholarly attention—to consider how conflicting political discourses in wartime India were configured through the airwaves. As both Allied and Axis propaganda vied for the ‘hearts and minds’ of Indian audiences, how did the subcontinent become a geopolitical hotspot, particularly in 1942 with the threat of Japanese invasion, launch of the anticolonial Quit India movement and Subhas Chandra Bose’s nationalist broadcasts from pirate radio stations in Germany? This paper is interested in uncovering how the Indian listener would have ‘tuned in’, along with understanding monitors’ agency in selecting, editing, translating and transcribing these India-oriented transmissions. It seeks to broaden the frames of reference of broadcast history by focusing on non-European/non-US wartime listenership and surveillance, and argues for the value of BBC monitoring transcripts in interrogating the complex relationship between Indian decolonisation and war.

中文翻译:

无线电战争中的拉吉

本文借鉴了二战期间多语种 BBC 监控人员创建的广播记录——几乎没有受到学术界的关注——考虑了战时印度冲突的政治话语是如何通过电波配置的。由于盟军和轴心国的宣传都在争夺印度观众的“心灵和思想”,次大陆如何成为地缘政治热点,特别是在 1942 年日本入侵的威胁、反殖民退出印度运动的发起和苏巴斯·钱德拉·博斯的民族主义广播来自德国的海盗电台?本文旨在揭示印度听众如何“收听”,以及了解监听者在选择、编辑、翻译和转录这些面向印度的传输方面的机构。
更新日期:2019-07-17
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