Shakuntala Rao is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY, USA.

Vipul Mudgal heads the Common Cause and Inclusive Media for Change organisations. He has been founding Director of Publics and Policies Programme and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India. He works on the intersections of media, democracy and political violence.

Introduction: Democracy, civil society, and journalism in India1. Indian Journalism in the Colonial Crucible: a nineteenth-century story of political protest2. Popular Cinephilia in North India: Madhuri shows the way (1964-78)3. A Media Not for All: A comparative analysis of journalism, democracy and exclusion in Indian and South African media4. Phantom Journalism: Governing India's proxy media owners5. Shaming the Nation on Public Affairs Television: Barkha Dutt tackles colorism on We the People 6. Playing Reporter: Small-town women journalists in north India7. The Potential and Limitations of Citizen Journalism Initiatives: Chhattisgarh's CGNet Swara8. Connecting Activists and Journalists: Twitter communication in the aftermath of the 2012 Delhi rape9. How Well do India's Multiple Language Dailies Provide Political Knowledge to Citizens of this Electoral Democracy?10. Our Media, Our Principles: Building codes of practice for community radio in India