Jeffrey, Robin

India's newspaper revolution: Capitalism, potics and the Indian-language press - 3rd ed. - New Delhi : Oxford university press , 2000 - 273 p.

1. INTRODUCTION: CAPITALISM, POLITICS AND
THE INDIAN-LANGUAGE PRESS
Print, capitalism, newspapers and nationalism
Newspapers, politics and publicness
2. TRANSFORMING
Languages
Literacy, wealth and politics: why buy a newspaper?
Printing
Revolution
3. ADVERTISING
"The most common name "
"The main event"
"90 under the banyan tree "
4. LOCALIZING
Production
News
Language
Dumbing down or raising hell?
5. OWNING
Diversity
Traders to capitalists
Parties, politics and "the nation
6. REPORTING AND EDITING
Shaping
Standing
Training
Daiits
Women
"Dedication... makes the difference"
7. CONTROLLING
The state
Politics, crime, insurgency and profit
8. CONCLUSION
Capitalism
A "public sphere"
Nationalism
Television and the future
"The multitude too familiar"
9. EPILOGUE: THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES, 2000-9
Growth and its causes
Hindi
Kannada
Oriya
Gujarati
Assamese
Ownership and its predicaments
Advertising and its pressures
"Standards " and their "erosion "
Public spheres and their creation?
Social diversity and its difficulties
The revolution continues... ?

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