ABSTRACT
India represents an interesting contemporary case of media transformations in the age of globalisation in view of the antinomies between scholarly discourses delineating India as media globalisation's success story and prohibitively contradictory evidence to the contrary. This chapter aims to establish that western domination of the Indian television (TV) system has also grown and assumed new forms. It details the Indian television system, Doordarshan, the Hindi word for television, being the first signpost. The chapter demonstrates that the actual, even if inadvertent, victim of globalisation has been state-broadcasting and an associated developmentist model of TV. The decline of state-led television channels, in turn, has radically transformed the TV systems in India. The chapter sets the stage for an implicit comparison with the TV system in Pakistan. It explores some salient features of the Indian TV system from a dependency perspective.
