International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2016, Volume : 6, Issue : 9
First page : ( 181) Last page : ( 192)
Online ISSN : 2249-2496.

Kashmiri Pandits The Pioneer of Journalism in Jammu and Kashmir

Chandel Nitin*

* Ph. D. Research Scholar, Department of History, University of Jammu

Online published on 25 October, 2016.

Abstract

This article pronounces the evolution of Press in Jammu and Kashmir and the Kashmiri Pandits being the first to heralded journalism in Kashmir. The paper also describes the genesis of Press in British India by emigre Kashmiri Pandits provided the road to the native Pandits of Kashmir. The study portrays the exploded space for social reforms, political rights, economic problems, and how political and social actions of the community related to larger political worlds in which they operated and how it related to the process of the formation of the community identity. Many Kashmiri Pandits exercise their own paper and have their own theme of reflection but the notion centered towards fostering the community consciousness through social, political and economic restructurings. The paper is an endeavor to reconnoiter miniscule Kashmiri Pandits contribution for social and political awakening through Press and the prolific results enjoyed by the majority community. Moreover the founders of different papers took the contemporary subjects and were critical of ruling government, ushering grievances of masses, Unemployment etc. were put forth bythem into limelight.

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Keywords

Newspapers, the Martand, the Hamdard, the Vitasta, the Kashmir Chronicle, Dress and Community consciousness.

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