In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house
to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles—anything for which he can …

Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of
great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of …

The colonial roots of the global news system have received relatively limited academic
scrutiny, especially from a global South perspective. This article discusses the colonial …

This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the
commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the …

Many historians, journalists, and media mavens have traced the genealogy of Victorian
communications networks backward, beginning with radio after World War I and continuing …

This book studies the various representations of Asia in Bengali literary periodicals between
the 1860s and 1940s. It looks at how these periodicals tried to analyse the political situation …

This article uses the history of news agencies, particularly in Germany, to explore key
theories about media transitions. First, many over-emphasize technology as an autonomous …

New Woman literature is typically regarded as an Anglo-American invention, but this
assessment ignores the contributions of global authors who shaped the genre's rise in the …

In the 1870s, Indian news editors warned their readers of a series of crises threatening India.
They saw the famines, wars, and poverty that they were describing as symptoms of the same …

This article discusses the life-story of Suchet Singh (1841–1896). The ruler of the Himalayan
kingdom of Chamba, Singh was deposed by the colonial authorities soon after his accession …