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To accomplish the aims of education, ‘political propaganda and formation as well as propagation of nationalist ideology’, the press became the chief instrument. Comment.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Social and Cultural Developments

Where Western education created a small English-knowing elite, it was the press that carried its ideas — and eventually a nationalist ideology far beyond colonial intent — down to the wider literate public.

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  • The Press as an Educative Instrument
  • The Press as an Instrument of Political Propaganda
  • The Press as Propagator of Nationalist Ideology
  • Limits of the Press as an Instrument

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