Talking to India

{{Short description|1943 book edited by George Orwell}}

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| author = E. M. Forster, Ritchie Calder, Cedric Dover, Hsiao Ch'ien and others

| editors = George Orwell

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| country = UK

| language = English

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| publisher = Allen and Unwin

| pub_date = 1943

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Talking to India is a book authored by E. M. Forster, Ritchie Calder, Cedric Dover, Hsiao Ch'ien and others, and published by Allen and Unwin in 1943. It was edited by George Orwell following his time at the BBC Radio Eastern Service.{{cite journal |last1=Paczulla |first1=Jutta |title="Talking to India": George Orwell's Work at the BBC, 1941-1943 |journal=Canadian Journal of History |date=1 March 2007 |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=53–70 |doi=10.3138/cjh.42.1.53 |url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cjh.42.1.53?journalCode=cjh |issn=0008-4107|url-access=subscription}}{{cite journal |last1=Kerr |first1=Douglas |title=Orwell's BBC broadcasts: Colonial discourse and the rhetoric of propaganda |journal=Textual Practice |date=1 January 2002 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=473–490 |doi=10.1080/09502360210163435 |s2cid=162312139 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09502360210163435?journalCode=rtpr20 |issn=0950-236X|url-access=subscription}}{{cite journal |last1=Fleay |first1=C. |last2=Sanders |first2=M. L. |title=Looking into the Abyss: George Orwell at the BBC |journal=Journal of Contemporary History |date=1989 |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=503–518 |doi=10.1177/002200948902400307 |jstor=260672 |s2cid=159768017 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/260672 |issn=0022-0094|url-access=subscription}}{{cite book |editor1-last=Lago |editor1-first=Mary |editor2-last=Hughes |editor2-first=Linda K. |editor3-last=Walls |editor3-first=Elizabeth MacLeod |title=The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960 |year=2008 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |isbn=978-0-8262-1800-1 |pages=20–21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e8nUIRSdJhcC&dq=%22talking+to+India%22&pg=PA21}} It includes a chapter by Venu Chitale.{{cite book |title=Talking To India |date=1943 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241082/page/n127/mode/2up?q=venu|page=128}}