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This essay reviews the works ‘Television and the Afghan Culture Wars’ (University of Illinois Press) by Wazhmah Osman and ‘Media Imperialism in India and Pakistan’ (Routledge) by Farooq Sulehria as recent contributions to the fields of global and comparative media studies. It considers the overlapping themes in these works through ruberics of media imperialism and development in terms of growth of television industry in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the broad context of globalization and transnational media flows.

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Afghanistan comparative media studies development global media studies India media imperialism Pakistan transnational media flows

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Osman

(2020) Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Sulehria

(2018) Media Imperialism in India and Pakistan. New York, NY: Routledge.

Review essay: Global and comparative perspectives on media and development

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