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The television serial Mahabharat on state-owned Doordarshan uncovers a national Image that is primarily concentrated around Hindu practices of the Hindispeaking hegemony of northern India. Doordarshan’s India emerges as one where other non-Hindi and non-Hindu practices are represented as marginal and sometimes deviant. This paper examines the use of sound, language, visual images and the various connections between the textual elements to establish that serials such as Mahabharat are powerful television narratives that produce and circulate a specific hegemonic and ideologically powerful national image.
Ananda Mitra (Fri,) studied this question.