123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): The Press of Empire: Imperial Expansion and Decolonization in British Reporting on India, 1840–1947

The Press of Empire: Imperial Expansion and Decolonization in British Reporting on India, 1840–1947

AHA Session 147
North American Conference on British Studies 1

Sunday, January 4, 2009: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Sutton North (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Philippa Levine, University of Southern California

Papers:

Lions Entangled: British Press Coverage of the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–46)
Stephen C. Vella, Wake Forest University

Vengeance Touched with Ambivalence: Reporting and Re-Reporting the Mutiny in The Times, Punch, and the Illustrated London News
Douglas M. Peers, York University

"At the Stroke of the Midnight Hour": The British Press and Indian Independence in 1947
Chandrika Kaul, University of St. Andrews

Comment:

Thomas R. Metcalf, University of California at Berkeley

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