Udant Martand
Topic: Print Culture and the Modern World · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
Udant Martand was the first Hindi-language newspaper. It was a weekly started in Calcutta on 30 May 1826 by Jugal Kishore Shukla. It had few readers and little money, so it closed in 1827. In India, 30 May is observed as Hindi Journalism Day in its memory.
Example
Udant Martand came out in Calcutta in 1826, a city where Bengali, Persian and English papers had already appeared. This early start did not last. NCERT notes that Hindi printing began seriously only from the 1870s.
Don't confuse with
- Bombay Samachar (1822): a Gujarati newspaper that is still published. Udant Martand was in Hindi and closed within about a year and a half.
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