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Share on Back Benches: Caste Composition of Bihar’s Media

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  • Ranjan, Pramod

    (Assam University)

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In the first-pass survey of Bihar's Media, we could not find any journalists from the deprived sections of society in authoritative positions. Suspecting that even if they have not become classroom monitors, they can be found somewhere on the back benches, we decided in June 2009 to enlarge the scope of the survey. This time, in addition to the 42 institutions of Hindi and English media, 5 Urdu newspapers published from Patna were also included in the survey. Covering 230 journalists of 47 media institutions in the survey, we found that 73 per cent posts are held by upper-caste Hindus (Brahmin, Bhumihar, Rajput, Kayastha). OBC Hindus have only 10 per cent; Muslim Ashrafs 12 per cent and 4 per cent is covered by Pasmanda (Backward) Muslims. The presence of women is about 4 per cent. We found only 3 Dalit journalists in media institutions in Patna.

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  • Ranjan, Pramod, 2011. "Share on Back Benches: Caste Composition of Bihar’s Media," SocArXiv 527bt, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:527bt
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/527bt
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