![]() ![]() ![]() News of Mujib’s murder was initially censored in India, occurring as it did at the inopportune moment of Indian Independence Day, when Indira Gandhi was due to make her first public address since the proclamation of emergency. Advani (1927–), Jana Sangh and later Bharatiya Janata Party politician. It engages with sender–message–receiver models of communication by looking at how news of an event in Bangladesh, the assassination of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975), was disseminated via radio broadcasts and written about in the prison writings of two political leaders arrested in connection with the Emergency in India: Jayaprakash Narayan (1902–1979), leader of the anti-Congress movement for Total Revolution, and L. This essay considers the role of media in a major instance of populist mobilization in post-Independence India: resistance to the internal Emergency of 1975–1977. ![]()
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