The Message Bearers: The Nationalist Politics and the Entertainment Media in South India, 1880-1945Popular theatre and the rise of nationalism -- Popular songs and the civil disobedience movement -- Birth of a new medium: silent cinema in South India -- Patriotic cinema: an aspect of the freedom struggle -- Film censorship and political control in British India. |
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