Introduction Circulating Crisis: Colonial Newspapers and Print Culture -- Chapter 1 Bibliographical, Periodical, and Imperial Codes -- An Archive-With Many Gaps -- Materiality: Communicating through Form, Format, and Organization -- Facing Out: Typography and Appearance -- Inside: Leaders and Divisions -- Scissors-and-Paste Journalism -- Readers and Writers -- or Correspondence and Correspondents -- Literature: Vernacular, Local, and Pirated -- In Good Company: Colonial Critique and Imperial Certitude in the Mofussilite -- Chapter 2 Through a Glass Darkly: The Great Exhibition and the Great Indian Contractor -- Rocks in Paxton's Glass Palace -- "Full of Novelty and Interest": The Great Exhibition Overtaken -- The Trial in Many Mirrors -- Chapter 3 The Uprising in the Anglo-Indian Press -- Editorial Turbulence -- Extracting News: Improvisation and Chaos -- The Hindoo Patriot in the Balance -- Chapter 4 Wanderings and Textual Travels -- House Rules -- Indigenizing Brand Dickens -- Independent Wanderings -- Coda: Wandering On -- Conclusion Mofussil News