Mirat-ul-Akhbar (Persian: مرآتالاخبار; lit. 'Mirror of News') was a Persian-language journal in British colonial India 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]
| Editor | Raja Rammohan Roy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 12 April 1822 |
| Language | Persian |
| Ceased publication | 4 April 1823 |
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- ^ Social Ideas and Social Change in Bengal 1818-1835. Brill Archive. 23 January 1965. p. 91. GGKEY:8YWY14NBR66. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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