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

पिछली सीटों पर हिस्सेदारी: बिहार के मीडिया की जातीय संरचना

Pramod Ranjan

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This is a summary of the caste survey of media persons in Bihar, India. A detailed survey related to this was done by me in the year 2009, which is compiled along with other articles in a booklet ‘मीडिया में हिस्सेदारी’ (Participation in Media). This summary was published in the bilingual (English-Hindi) magazine Forward Press in June 2011. English translation of all Hindi articles published in Forward Press was also published simultaneously. Therefore, the attached file contains the summary of the survey, both in Hindi and in English. For the survey, a list was systematically prepared of the authoritative people at state-level media institutions. The columns regarding their name, hometown, education, religion, and caste were filled with the help of information gathered from various sources. In the first-pass survey, 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 percent of posts are held by upper-caste Hindus (Brahmin, Bhumihar, Rajput, Kayastha). OBC Hindus have only 10 percent; Muslim Ashrafs 12 percent and 4 percent are covered by Pasmanda (Backward) Muslims. The presence of women is about 4 percent. We found only 3 Dalit journalists in media institutions in Patna. But no journalist coming from the underprivileged section of society was given a decision-making position.
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Pramod Ranjan. Share on Back Benches: Caste Composition of Bihar’s Media. Forward press, 2011, 3 (6), pp.21-26. ⟨10.31235/osf.io/527bt⟩. ⟨hal-03936825⟩
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