How does the governance of the newspaper business in mid-20th century India enrich our understanding of contests over media diversity? This essay examines the anxieties of media diversity in regulatory debates in India during the decades between the two Press Commissions of 1954 and 1982. I argue the contests spawned during these debates being driven as much by normative standpoints on the press as a modern institution as by enumerations of the actual dynamics in the newspaper business. My purpose is twofold: to highlight the anxieties about media diversity expressed by both press commissions and related policy debates in the interim; and to reveal the desires to mitigate the risks to media diversity being undermined by mobilising unqualified notions of media freedom.

20世纪中叶印度的报业治理如何使我们对媒体多元化竞赛的理解更加丰富？本文探讨了印度在1954年和1982年两个新闻委员会之间的数十年间监管辩论中媒体多样性的焦虑。我认为，在这些辩论中引发的竞争，在很大程度上取决于新闻界作为现代机构的规范立场。列举报纸业的实际动态。我的目的是双重的：在此期间，强调新闻委员会和相关政策辩论对媒体多样性的担忧；通过调动不合格的媒体自由概念来揭示减轻媒体多样性受到破坏的风险的愿望。