Political Economy of Communications in India: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

摘要

The work by Pradip Thomas is a welcome addition to the already growing corpus of Indian communi- cation research. Others before him have detailed some of the political economy of television, film, and other cultural industries, but Thomas reminds us that India is a moving target, changing almost by the week from a "underdeveloped" Third World country to one of the global stars of economic and media growth.