INDIAN LANGUAGES NEWSPAPERS: 9 Oriya: Identifying. with Newspapers Robin Jeffrey The growth of Oriya newspapers after the late 1980s has been spectacular Does the willingness to pay for local information in the form of newspapers indicate the growth of a genuine public sphere of which more and more Oriya-speakers see themselves as part? [Spreading across India after the end of the emergency in 1977, technological change in the form of the personal computer and offset press revolutionised the newspaper industry. The circulation of daily newspapers in all languages trebled between 1976 and 1992 -from 9.3 million to 28.1 million and the dailies-per-thousand people ratio doubled -from 15 daily newspapers per 1,000 people to 32 per l,000. Regular reading of something called news both indicates and causes change. Expansion of competing newspapers clearly signals the vitality and growth of capitalism: newspapers have owners and owners must have advertisers. The changes of the pas