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Assess the role of press in arousing awareness on important social issues in the second half of the nineteenth century.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Social and Cultural Developments

The press in the second half of the nineteenth century functioned as colonial India's principal instrument of social self-examination, even as its own social base limited how far that examination travelled.

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  • The Press as a Network of Social Mobilisation
  • Specific Social Issues the Press Foregrounded
  • Defending Press Freedom as a Reform Imperative
  • The Limits of the Press's Social Reach
  • Conclusion

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