Urdu News Paper

I want to know about the first Urdu daily in northern India. Provide me the page where I can get the detail of the Urdu News Paper?

I am providing the details of the first Urdu daily in northern India for your reference. Avadh Akhbar,launched in 1858 from the Naval Kishore Press in Lucknow,was the most lucrative journalistic venture of the famed North Indian publisher and print capitalist Munshi Naval Kishore and a great success with the Urdu reading public. At a time when most Urdu papers were short-lived, it remained in circulation up to the year, its lifespan of almost a century covering a crucial period in the history of colonial India. In Avad^ Akhb≥r (hereafter AA) became the first Urdu daily in northern India. It was to remain the only commercially viable
daily newspaper in Urdu for a whole decade, until its first serious rival emerged in the form of the Paisa Akhb≥r of Lahore, a paper emulating the concept of the British penny paper.1 Exemplifying the early phase of commercialization in the Urdu newspaper trade, AA was read across a wide geographical region ranging from Delhi to Hyderabad and from Lahore to Calcutta. For the rest of the details you can download the pdf file provided.

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