INDIAN LANGUAGES NEWSPAPERS 2-Hindi Taking to the Punjab Kesari Line

Hindi: 'Taking to the Punjab Kesari Line' Robin Jeffrey Three events linked Hindi newspapers with intense political excitement and violence in north India from the late 1980s the 'anti-reservation agitation', the BJP leader Advani's rath yatra and the ensuing communal riots. To what extent was the rough-and-ready quality of the new Hindi dailies, and the predilections of their proprietors responsible for the growth of Hindu-Muslim antagonism in north India?