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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814979503321

Autore

Ghosh Chilka

Titolo

Printed advertisement 1947-1970 : Bengali middleclass : an interaction / / by Chilka Ghosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-7102-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

659.10954

Soggetti

Advertising - Social aspects - India - Bengal - History - 19th century

Advertising - Social aspects - India - Bengal - History - 20th century

Advertising, Newspaper - India - Bengal - History - 19th century

Advertising, Newspaper - India - Bengal - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""TO CONCLUDE""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""

Sommario/riassunto

This work explains the politics of the patterns of the advertisements printed in the newspapers published in Bengal between 1947 and 1970, and the sociology of the encounter of the Bengali middleclass with these. Many of the cited advertisements were meant for the entire country but regional particularities were pronounced during the period under review, and the bhadralok consciously maintained a unique constructed identity that dates back to the colonial epoch. Therefore, their encounter with these advertisements too had regional peculiarities. The advertising texts of this period frequently