Press of India on the eve and in the first years of independence

Abstract

The years of the growth of national consciousness and the strengthening of political activity of the most diverse strata of Indian society could not but become years of the corresponding growth of the press, the expansion of its influence and at the same time the further differentiation of its main directions. The rise of the national liberation struggle in India, which on a nationwide scale began with the so-called Sepoy uprising (1857-1859) and continued with varying intensity throughout almost the entire colonial period, finally separated the Anglo-Indian press from the Indian one. The Anglo-Indian publications, as before, were completely on the side of the colonial authorities. Most of these publications with absolutely undisguised directness poured mud on all Indian political leaders, not even taking into account their ideological guidelines.