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Post by Petrichor Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:58 pm

"The history of community radio in India goes back to British rule. In 1935, the enormously wealthy Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, built three radio stations and installed a radio in every village in his domain, at a reported cost of five hundred thousand dollars, so that his subjects could receive dispatches on news, the weather, and health. He referred to radio as “the voice from the sky.” "

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/community-radio-in-bangalore.html

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