Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter I. Culture Wars 1
5. Part I. Fields of Power: The National Television Family
6. Chapter 2. National Television and the "Viewing Family" 45
7. Chapter 3. "Women-Oriented" Narratives and the New Indian Woman 104
8. Part II Engendering Communities
9. Chapter 4. Mediating Modernities: The Ramayan and the Creation of Community and Nation 165
10. Chapter 5. Television Tales, National Narratives, and a Woman's Rage: Multiple Interpretations of Draupadi's "Disrobing" 224
11. Part III. Technologies of Violence
12. Chapter 6. "Air Force Women Don't Cry": Militaristic Nationalism and Representations of Gender 259
13. Chapter 7. Popular Narrative, the Politics of Location, and Memory 289
14. Epilogue: Sky Wars 335
15. Notes 359
16. Bibliography 395
17. Index 417