The advent of British imperial administration and culture brought many changes in Indian society. The most transactional phase in this regard was 19th century in India which has witnessed many changes in the society. One of these changes was introduction of world’s first Persian Newspaper in India. These newspapers had brought many changes in Indian subcontinent.
Some of these Indian Persian newspapers are Miratul Akhbar, Aina-i-Sikander, Jam-i-Jahan Numa, Shamsul Akhbar, Akhbar-i-Sirampur, Mah-i-Alam Afroz, Akhbar-i-Ludhiana, Sirajul Akhbar , etc.
This presentation would be based on following bullet points:
• Depiction of Indian Society in Persian newspapers of India.
• Persian poetry in Persian newspapers of India.
• Imperial activities in Indian subcontinent as highlighted in Persian newspapers of India.
• Advertisement culture as published in Persian newspapers of India.
• International events and news from western countries as published in these newspapers.
• News of famous personalities like Dost Mohammad Khan of Afghanistan, Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab and many others as reflected in Persian newspapers of India.
• Persian newspapers and great mutiny of 1857 in India.
• Delhi’s past as reflected in Persian newspapers of India.
• Iran and other Persian speaking world as reflected in Persian newspapers of 19th century India.
• Trend of writing Persian newspaper in early Indian journalism phase: an inspiration for Persian journalism in Iran.
• News from cultural cities like Lucknow, Lahore and Herat.
• Literary and cultural study of the Persian newspapers of India.
Further the study in this field will give new ways to understand the Iranian studies through a different mean and also to understand the oriental world in a new dimension.
These oblivion newspapers are very rear and have a great archival value in Indian history. This entire presentation is based on the study of the original news papers of early 19th century India.
