Politics of News
MAHENDRA V. DESAI
INDIAN POLITICS AND THE ROLE OF THE PRESS by Sharad Karkhanis Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1981, 216 pp., 75.00
Sept-Oct 1981, volume 6, No 2

By training a political scientist, Dr Karkhanis has chosen a new field to work on. Here he explores the ‘significant relationship between the press and the Indian political institutions.’ His aim is to ‘analyse the role of the press in Indian politics’ and to assess its ‘impact on India’s governmental processes’, a chal¬lenging and a promising area of inquiry.

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