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Media, Knowledge, and Contemporary India
Author:
Rohit Chopra
Series:
Sanctum Studies in Indian Intellectual, Cultural, and Historical Traditions
Binding:
Paperback
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How do media forms and institutions shape what a society recognises as knowledge?
Knowledge does not circulate independently of the forms through which it is communicated. It is produced, organised, authorised, and contested within material and institutional arrangements that influence who may speak, what becomes credible, which ideas reach wider publics, and how their meanings change in circulation.This book examines the relationship among media, knowledge, and authority in the Indian context. Rather than treating media as a neutral channel through which ideas pass, it approaches media forms and institutions as active participants in the constitution of knowledge itself. It asks how changing conditions of communication reorder relationships between expertise and public opinion, inherited knowledge and intellectual innovation, and scholarly production and political power.Bringing media studies into conversation with intellectual history and the sociology of knowledge, the book considers how authority is established, challenged, and redistributed as ideas move between institutions and publics. It explores how modes of communication shape not only the circulation of knowledge, but also the categories through which knowledge becomes intelligible and socially consequential.The result is a focused inquiry into the structures of knowing: who produces knowledge, who certifies it, how it travels, and what happens to intellectual authority when the conditions of its circulation change.
About the Author
Vincent Lefevre
Vincent Lefèvre is Professor of Archaeology and the History of Art of South and Southeast Asia at Sorbonne University. Trained as an archivist-palaeographer and heritage curator, he received his doctorate in Oriental Languages, Civilisations and Societies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2004 and his habilitation in 2007. Before joining Sorbonne University in 2024, he pursued a distinguished twenty-five-year career as a museum curator and heritage administrator, serving at the Musée Cernuschi, the Musée national des arts asiatiques–Guimet, Agence France-Muséums for the Louvre Abu Dhabi project, and the French Ministry of Culture. A specialist in the arts and archaeology of the Indian and Indianised world, his research focuses on South India, ancient Bengal, Sanskrit treatises on ritual and architecture, and portraiture in South and Southeast Asia. Since 2013, he has directed the French archaeological cooperation mission in Bangladesh, leading excavations at the ancient urban site of Mahasthangarh. He is the author of
Le Génie de l’art indien
(2023),
Portraiture in Early India: Between Transience and Eternity
(2011); and
Commanditaires et artistes en Inde du Sud
(2006).
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