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Book: Indian Religions

Chapter: Kumbha Melâ and the Media

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.21459

Blurb:

This chapter argues that contemporary media are diverse, overlapping but fragmented and that any kind of essentialist understanding is based on ideological rather than empirical considerations. It reveals the heterogeneity of media representations of Kumbha and suggests that the culture of the newsroom and of public discourse influences media reports as much as inherited colonial stereotypes.

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