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- Title
In the Picture: Orwell, India and the BBC.
- Authors
Kerr, Douglas
- Abstract
From 1941 until 1943 Orwell worked as Talks Producer in the Indian Section of the BBC's Eastern Service. He was convinced that empire was morally indefensible, but also that the defeat of Japan and Germany might depend on India's remaining loyal to Britain and the Allies. Here the news commentaries he wrote for broadcast to India are examined as part of a discourse struggle, a propaganda campaign fought over the airwaves; but the discourse struggle was also within himself. He puts Indians, and perhaps himself, ‘in the picture’, a reading of history in which wartime loyalty to the Raj is the necessary road to an eventual postcolonial world.
- Subjects
IMPERIALISM; WORLD War II; FRICTION (Military science); PROPAGANDA; PATRIOTISM; MASS media &; war
- Publication
Literature & History, 2004, Vol 13, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0306-1973
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7227/LH.13.1.4