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DR.AMBEDKAR AND MEDIA: AN EMPOWERING PROCESS OF DALITS IN INDIA

    1 Author(s):  VENKATESH KADUN

Vol -  6, Issue- 3 ,         Page(s) : 379 - 383  (2015 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

News Papers being in private hands, have remained the exclusive terrain of the dominant communities of the country Hence Dalits are nowhere near News Papers and in the business of bringing out Magazines News Letters Journals etc. News Papers are the only form of media that Dalits generally have an easy and reasonable access to, that are able to present a diversity of opinions. Even in the smallest Villages, there reach copies of at least a couple of different Newspapers. And in larger Villages, nearer to metropolitan cities and State Capitals, local, regional, and national Papers could be found. The media plays a major role in the formation of social identity. Ambedkar is always identified as a leader of the Dalits and nothing else. Right from his struggle towards social justice till now. the present paper tries to elaborate the work done by Dr. Ambedkar as a journalist and the news paper started by him in which he wrote about the social religious and political issues and related to dalits developments . he used newspapers as an empowering tool for dalits by creating awareness through newspapers.

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