Blast from the past: US foreign policy and Indexing India in US press during Cold War

This qualitative research studied press-state relations using India as a case study. It studied India's depiction inThe New York Timesduring the Cold War using Indexing theory. Indexing theory states that the press reflects policies of its own country's government during international reporting. This research uncovered common themes in the newspaper between 1967 and 1991 that lent support to Indexing theory. The research has implications for the U.S. media that recently started criticizing India following the U.S. government's criticism of India on account of various political moves taken by the Narendra Modi-led government.