[NOT] being there: Dalits and India’s newspapers

South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 225-238

  Jeffrey, Robin ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0345776908     PISSN: 00856401     EISSN: 14790270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00856400108723459     Document Type: Article

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1. Leonard Maltin (ed.), Movie and Video Guide, 1997 edition (New York, Signet, 1996), p. 98.
2. Press in India, 1963 [hereafter Pll + year], p. 130; PII, 1990, p. 149; PIl, 1995, p. 146.
3. S. P. Singh, former editor, Navbharat Times, New Delhi, 21 Feb. 1993.
4. Dalit Voice, 16-31 Jan. 1997, p. 3.
5. This was Indudhara Honnapura, whose weekly Suddi Sangaati, claimed a circulation of 44,000 in 1987. PII, 1991, Pt. 2, Vol. 1, p. 322.
6. Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany, The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modem India (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
7. Interview, D. S. Ravindra Doss, President, Tamilnadu Union of Journalists, Chennai, 21 Jan. 1999. Ravindra Doss first joined the Communist Party of India, then moved to the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
8. Laurence Glasco communication, 10 May 1999, to Dalit and Tribal Peoples’ Resource Site .
9. Jose Panachipuram, Chief News Editor, Malay al a Manorama, Kottayam, 25 Jan. 1999.
10. Interview, Jose T. Thomas, freelance book editor, formerly news editor of Deepika, Kottayam, 25 Jan. 1999.
11. Balwant Shah, senior editor, Sandesh, Ahmedabad, 2 Feb. 1999.
12. PratapT. Shah, editor, Saurashtra Samacliar, Bhavnagar, 3 Feb. 1999.
13. S. K. Thorat, ‘Dalits and the New Economic Policy’, Dalit International Newsletter, Vol. 1, no. 2 (June 1996), p. 4.
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16. Juliet E K. Walker, ‘The Promised Land: The Chicago Defender rind the Black Press in Illinios: 1862-1970’, in Henry Lewis Suggs (ed.), The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-1985 (Westport, Greenwood Press, 1996), pp. 24-5.
17. Vishnu V. Oak, The Negro Newspaper (Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch Press, 1948), p. 22.
18. Armistead S. Pride and Clint C. Wilson, A History of the Black Press (Washington, Howard University Press, 1997), p. 137.
19. David K. Shipler, ‘Blacks in the Newsroom: Progress? Yes, but…’, Columbia Journalism Review [hereafter CJR\, May-June 1998, pp. 29-32.
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23. Kenneth Cooper, New Delhi, 9 Feb. 1999. Pride and Wilson, History of the Black Press, p. 267.
24. Interview, K. Kumaran, Managing Director, Dinakaran, Chennai, 18 Jan. 1999.
25. R. Krishnamurthy, editor, Dinamalar, Chennai, 19 Jan. 1999.
26. Interview, R. M. T. Sambandam, editor, Dinamani, Chennai, 19 Jan. 1999. Bom in 1935 and an admirer of the iconoclastic Periyar E. V. Ramaswami Naicker, Sambandam came from the militant non-Brahmin tradition in Tamil politics.
27. ‘End Apartheid from Indian Media - Democratise Nation’s Opinion’, a memorandum submitted to the Editors’ Guild of India and Press Council of India (New Delhi, The Authors, 1996), p. 4.
28. Armistead S. Pride and Clint C. Wilson, A History of the Black Press (Washington, Howard University Press, 1997), pp. 217-18.
29. They describe the Defender as ‘bold, exciting, violent and iniquitous’. CJR, Sept.-Oct. 1997, p. 57.
30. Shipler, ‘Blacks in the Newsroom’, pp. 27, 31
31. Pride and Wilson, History of the Black Press, pp. 127-31
32. A. S. Panneerselvan, Chief of Bureau, Outlook, Chennai, 21 Jan. 1999. Dalit Voice, 16-30 Nov. 1997, p. 9.
33. Pioneer, 6 Dec. 1996, p. 4.
34. Denis Kane, ‘Representation of Dalits in India’s English Language Print Media’, B.A. (Hons) thesis in Asian Studies, La Trobe University, 1997, pp. iii-iv.
35. Economic Times, 26 Oct. 1996 [http://www.economictimes.com/261096/poli3.htm].
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40. Dalit Voice, 16-30 Nov. 1996, p. 4.
41. Panneerselvan. 21 Jan. 1999.
42. International Herald Tribune, 6 Sept. 1996, p. 4.
43. Pioneer, 16 Nov. 1996, p. 10.
44. Mary McLeod Bethune in Pride and Wilson, op. cit., pp. 217-18.
45. P. Sainath, Everybody Loves a Good Drought (New Delhi, Penguin, 1996).