Turning the page: a brief history of newspapers in India
Abstract
The press in India began its journey when the country was still a British colony in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The modern press appeared after India´s independence in 1947 but it’s only starting from the eighties, due to the liberalization measures of Rajiv Gandhi’s government, that it experienced a strong development. At present and as opposed to what is occurring in Western countries, the written media is witnessing a major development both in the number of readers as well as in the number of newspapers published, especially due to the rise of a literate middle class eager to learn and consume news that appeals to their interests and new lifestyle.
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