Mirat-ul-Akhbar

Mirat-ul-Akhbar (Persian: مرآت‌الاخبار; lit. 'Mirror of News') was a Persian-language journal founded and edited by Raja Rammohan Roy.[1] The newspaper was first published on 12 April 1822. It was published on a weekly basis on Fridays.[2] British journalist James Silk Buckingham was also closely involved in the operation of the newspaper. The Mirat-ul-Akhbar was not well-received by the colonial government,[3] and was termed to be theologically controversial by official W.B. Bayley. On April 4, 1823, the colonial government passed a Press Ordinance that introduced regulations against the Indian press, namely the requirement of a license to publish journals. In protest, Roy closed the Mirat-ul-Akhbar on the same day. The journal's final issue listed his criticisms of the Ordinance.[4]

Mirat-ul-Akhbar
EditorRaja Rammohan Roy
Founded12 April 1822
LanguagePersian
Ceased publication4 April 1823

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References
  1. Rizwan Ullah (15 July 2001). "Mission lost in wilderness". The Milli Gazette. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  2. Social Ideas and Social Change in Bengal 1818-1835. Brill Archive. p. 91. GGKEY:8YWY14NBR66. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  3. Joanne Shattock (16 March 2017). Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-107-08573-2. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  4. Sonwalkar, Prasun (3 September 2015). "Indian Journalism in the Colonial Crucible". Journalism Studies. 16 (5): 633–634. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2015.1054159. ISSN 1461-670X.
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