The Cultural Industries of India

The Cultural Industries of India is the first book length study dedicated to Indian cultural and creative industries.The chapters offer a comprehensive overview of the relationship between the cultural and creative industries and the wider economic, social, cultural and political processes taking place within India and its diaspora.

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Rohit K. Dasgupta is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at the University of Glasgow, UK. His most recent book is Mapping Innovation in India's Creative Industries (2023). He is currently a visiting scholar at the Centre for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Clelia Clini is Lecturer in Postcolonial Media and Culture at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is also a Visiting Fellow in Postcolonial Memory in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. Her research cuts across disciplines as she works across migration and diaspora studies; postcolonial theory; memory and cultural heritage; film and media studies.

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The Cultural Industries of India is the first book length study dedicated to Indian cultural and creative industries.The chapters offer a comprehensive overview of the relationship between the cultural and creative industries and the wider economic, social, cultural and political processes taking place within India and its diaspora.

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The cultural industries of India: an introduction 1. Queer creative Indian city: queer film festivals, precarious cultural work and community making in Kolkata 2. Bollywood and slum tours: poverty tourism and the Indian cultural industry 3. Performance, cultural resistance and social justice: India's creative economies since the COVID-19 pandemic 4. Getting louder: music, "feedback loops" and social change in the Tamil transnational music scene 5. Mapping innovation in India's creative industries: an ecosystem framework 6. Esme Ward (Manchester Museum): in conversation