A Partition of The Public Sphere

IF 0.4 Q4 COMMUNICATION Media History Pub Date : 2022-05-20 DOI:10.1080/13688804.2022.2079479
A. Majumdar
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Historians of Partition have focused upon the bitterly polarized yet vibrant public sphere of the last days of the British Raj, wherein newspapers representing Congress, Muslim League and Akali opinion vied for influence through increasingly hostile propaganda targeted at the ‘other/s’. Such studies’ focus on ideological battles and propaganda results in relatively less attention being given to what became of these papers once the British departed and the parties these papers espoused or opposed captured power. This paper will seek to revisit such assumptions by analyzing the trials and tribulations of the significant newspaper houses unfortunate enough to be located on the geographical frontlines of Partition and in major centres of communal conflagration. Through such analyses, I will seek to show that it was a combination of initial mob action, reinforced often by state repression and even popular reproach, that forced newspapers viewed as belonging to the ‘other’ party to move to safer (and greener) pastures. In the process, late-colonial India’s once pluralist public sphere came to be partitioned into sections that broadly conformed to the ideologies that the respective Dominions’ new rulers espoused. While aligning newspapers with the majoritarian public opinion, this Partition occasioned shifts of personnel and presses that would fundamentally alter the postcolonial press industry in West and East Pakistan, and to a lesser extent, in India.
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公共领域的划分
研究分治问题的历史学家把注意力集中在英国统治的最后几天里,两极分化严重但又充满活力的公共领域,当时代表国大党、穆斯林联盟和阿卡利的报纸通过针对“他者”的日益敌对的宣传来争夺影响力。这类研究的重点是意识形态斗争和宣传,导致人们相对较少关注英国人离开后这些报纸的命运,以及这些报纸支持或反对的政党夺取了权力。本文将试图通过分析不幸位于分治的地理前沿和社区冲突的主要中心的重要报纸的考验和磨难来重新审视这些假设。通过这样的分析,我将试图表明,这是最初的暴民行动的结合,经常被国家镇压和甚至公众谴责所加强,迫使被视为属于“另一方”的报纸转移到更安全(更绿色)的牧场。在这一过程中,印度殖民后期一度多元化的公共领域被划分为多个部分,这些部分大体上符合各自自治领新统治者所信奉的意识形态。在使报纸与多数民意保持一致的同时,这一分治引起了人员和媒体的转移,从根本上改变了巴基斯坦西部和东部的后殖民出版业,在较小程度上也改变了印度。
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