Professor Robin Jeffrey
Brief Introduction
Robin Jeffrey first lived in India as a school teacher in Chandigarh from 1967 to 1969. He completed a doctorate in Indian history at Sussex University in the UK in 1973, taught for 25 years in the Politics Program at La Trobe University in Melbourne, worked twice at the Australian National University in Canberra and has lived for six years in India between 1967 and 2009. He has written about Kerala, Punjab and Indian media. A third edition of India's Newspaper Revolution will be published in 2010. He is working on a study of mobile phones in India and completing a book called Slices of India, a history of India in the second half of the 20th century based around the years of the great Kumbh Mela in Allahabad.
Area of Interest and Expertise
PoliticsKerala, Punjab and Indian media
Current Research
A study of mobile phones in India and completing a book called Slices of India, a history of India in the second half of the 20th century based around the years of the great Kumbh Mela in Allahabad.
Publications
Books and Monographs
India's Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Politics and the Indian-Language Press, 1977-97 (London: C. Hurst/New Delhi: Oxford University Press/New York: St Martin's Press, 2000), 234 pp. Second edition with new introductory chapter (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003)Third edition with an additional chapter (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010)Hindi edition, Bharat-ki samacharpatra kranti (New Delhi: Indian Institute of Mass Communications, 2004), 215 pp.indiayute patraviplavam (Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Languages Institute, 2005) [Malayalam translation of India's Newspaper Revolution]Media and Modernity: Communications, Women and the State in India (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2009), 298pp.
Chapters in Books
Introduction to Chandra Bhan Prasad, Dalit Diary: 1999-2003: Reflections on Apartheid in India (Pondicherry, Navayana Publishing, 2004), pp. ix-xiv"The Mahatma Didn't Like the Movies and Why It Matters: Indian Broadcasting Policy, 1920s-1990s," Global Media and Communication, vol. 2, no. 2 (2006), pp. 207-27. Edited and republished in Arvind Rajagopal (ed.), The Indian Public Sphere (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 171-87."The Public Sphere of Print Journalism," in Nalini Rajan (ed.), Practising Journalism: Values, Constraints, Implications (New Delhi: Sage, 2005), pp. 257-66 [published as "Breaking News," The Little Magazine, vol. 4, no. 2 (2003), pp. 6-10].Foreword to Making News, ed. Uday Sahay (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. xi-xiii."Grand Canyon, Shaky Bridge: Media Revolution and the Rise of ‘Hindu' Politics," South Asia, vol. 25, no. 3 (December 2002), pp. 281-300. Reprinted in John McGuire and Ian Copland (eds), Hindu Nationalism and Governance (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 334-55."Coalitions and Consequences: Historical, Economic, Social and Political Considerations from India," in Raghbendra Jha (ed.), The Indian Economy Sixty Years after Independence (London: Palgrave, 2008), pp. 7-16."Urdu Newspapers in India: Waiting for Citizen Kane," in Ather Farouqui (ed.), Muslims and Media Images: News versus Views (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 221-36 [published as "Urdu: Waiting for Citizen Kane?", Economic and Political Weekly, 29 March 1997, pp. 631-6].With Peter Friedlander and Sanjay Seth, "'Subliminal Charge‘: How Hindi-language Newspaper Expansion Affects India," Media International Australia, No. 100 (August 2001), pp. 147-66. . Edited and republished in Arvind Rajagopal (ed.), The Indian Public Sphere (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 188-206."The Mahatma Didn't Like the Movies and Why It Matters: Indian Broadcasting Policy, 1920s-1990s," Global Media and Communication, vol. 2, no. 2 (2006), pp. 207-27. Edited and republished in Arvind Rajagopal (ed.), The Indian Public Sphere (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 171-87."Introduction," in William T. Tow and Chin Kin Wah (eds), ASEAN-India-Australia: Towards Closer Engagement in a New Asia (Singapore: Institute for South East Asian Studies, 2009), pp. xvii-xxi.
Participation in Conferences
"Hingeing the Sphere: How Indian-Language Newspapers Make a Nation and Create Publics," Australia-India Media Symposium, Asian College of Journalism and Australian High Commission, Chennai, October 2005"Media and Democracy in India: Preliminary Comparisons of Kerala and Uttar Pradesh (UP)," Democracy in India conference, University of California, Berkeley, September 2006"The Growth of India," Sir Leslie Melville Annual Lecture, Canberra, 10 October 2007"India's 15th General Elections," National Press Club and High Commission for India, Canberra, 15 May 2009"Australasia: a Long History … and why we need to know it," History Teachers' Association of Australia, National Conference, Melbourne, 17 July 2009
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