Bihar Press and Social Awakening: 1858-1905

The press is a picturesque graph of public mood, motives and moves, ethos and pathos, aspirations and inspirations and jubilations and inspirations as well as agonies. It projects the details of an everlasting chain of actions and reactions of different strata of society in a particular socio–economic and political set-up. Various interests of different classes are bound to be manifested and sometimes criss-crossed through the columns of the functional organ of this mighty fourth estate. With the passage of time it has developed into such a potent industry that today even the mightiest government of the world cannot think of playing foul with it. In a nutshell now a day the press has become the very artery of the body politic of any society in absence which its vitality seems to be susceptive. The book Bihar Press and Social Awakening (1858-1905) is an attempt to study the same in the above mentioned perspective.

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Emergence of Bihar press and social background of editors and proprietors. 3. Bihar press on socio-economic and political problems. 4. Bihar press and national awakening. 5. Bihar press on international issues. 6. Class and regional bias of Bihar press. 7. Bihar press as an organ of social change. Conclusion. Bibliography.