Journal article
Gandhi's Newspaperman: T. G. Narayanan and the quest for an independent India, 1938–46
Modern Asian studies, Vol.54(2), pp.471-501
03/01/2020
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X18000094
Abstract
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 20192019Cambridge University Press The expansion of the colonial public sphere in India during the 1930s and 1940s saw the nation's English-language press increasingly serve as a key site in the struggle for freedom despite British censorship. This article examines the journalistic career of T. G. Narayanan, the first Indian war correspondent and investigative reporter, to understand the role of English-language newspapers in India's quest for independence. Narayanan reported on two major events leading to independence: the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Second World War. Drawing on Michael Walzer's concept of the ‘connected critic’, this research demonstrates that Narayanan's journalism fuelled the Indian nationalist movement by manoeuvring around British censors to publicize and expand Mahatma Gandhi's criticism of British rule, especially in light of the famine and war. His one departure from the pacifist leader, however, was his support of Indian soldiers serving in the Indian National Army and British Army.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Gandhi's Newspaperman: T. G. Narayanan and the quest for an independent India, 1938–46
- Creators
- Paul SubinDavid Dowling
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Modern Asian studies, Vol.54(2), pp.471-501
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0026749X18000094
- ISSN
- 0026-749X
- eISSN
- 1469-8099
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2020
- Academic Unit
- Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9984307653402771
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