INDIAN LANGUAGES NEWSPAPERS 3-Bengali Professional, Somewhat Conservative and Calcuttan-Bengali: Professional, Somewhat Conservative and Calcuttan

INDIAN LANGUAGES NEWSPAPERS: 3 Bengali: 'Professional, Somewhat Conservative' and Calcuttan Robin Jeffrey In spite of technological possibilities and the apparently increasing wealth and political influence of rural West Bengal, newspaper proprietors have not followed the road taken by their counterparts in much of the rest of India: not one major newspaper has even a printing centre outside Calcutta resulting in a lack of penetration of the newspapers into the countryside.