Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders Huacuja Alonso Isabel
Co-winner, 2023 AIPS Book Prize, American Institute of Pakistan StudiesFrom news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly…
Specifikacia Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders Huacuja Alonso Isabel
Co-winner, 2023 AIPS Book Prize, American Institute of Pakistan StudiesFrom news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for more than half a century. Radio for the Millions examines the history of Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners.Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians' efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp. She demonstrates that the medium enabled listeners and broadcasters to resist the cultural, linguistic, and political agendas of the British colonial administration and the subsequent independent Indian and Pakistani governments. Rather than being merely a tool of