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Urdu Urdu Press Press Over Overseas Over seas
A way to circumvent the rigours of the Indian Press laws was found by some of the Indians settled abroad, who published newspapers in Indian languages from various cities in Europe and America and then smuggled them into India. The first full throated 6.51
on the colonial rule of the British came from these papers, whose clandestine circulation appears to have been fairly wide. Amongst the earliest to have been noticed by the British Government was the Talwar or the Shamsher published from Berlin, some attacks
whose issues were forfeited by the Government in 1910. From San Francisco was of
the Hindustani and later the Hindustani Akhbar. The Hindustani was published in Urdu, Gurumuukhi and Gujarati. Its issue dated July 21, 1914, was declared forfeited in India. The Hindustan Gbadar Party used to publish the Hindustani published
from San Francisco in the third decade of the 20th century. An Urdu paper, Yadi-watan, was published by the famous journalist-statesman, Syed Husain, from New York, in 1923. Several of its issues were noticed in India and prescribed. Akhbar
Khilafat Khilafat Movement
Movement
Within the country also, there were fearless souls who did not care for the consequences. The Khilafat Movement which merged into the national movement in early twenties, saw the emergence of a number of Urdu papers. Those already In the 6.52
were able to build up respectable circulations, the most important ones circulating in thousands. The number of newspapers and journals, which stood at 77 in-1884-85, had reached the figure of 151 in 1921.* field
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6.53 Maulana Mohammed Ali's Hamdard and Maulana Hasrat Mohani's Urdu-i-Moalla played a very prominent role in this period. Both eminent editor-statesmen suffered Imprisonment. Mahasha Krishan of the the Pratap also bad to suffer imprisonment for his writings, which led to the temporary closure of the paper. On his release, when he re-started publication, the paper forfeited security. Among other papers which faced
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