Press in Subcountinent

Press in Sub Continent:
Beginning of Media:
In the sub-continent, journalism started with preliminary handwritten news sheets prepared by government news-writers during the Muslim rule. They were written dated, appeared at regular and frequent intervals. Such news sheets provided the rulers with information from all corners of the empire, regarding public occurrences, current-events, mischief in societies and hardships faced by the people. From this information, the rulers used to take decisions and plan initiatives to uphold good governance. * Organization: The initial system of hand-written news sheets, though not well standardized, was instigated on strong foundations during the rule of Delhi emperors. But the legendary Mughal emperors enhanced and strengthened it to the superior degree of excellence. News-writers or stringers were assigned in all the areas of the empire to collect news and assemble it in the paper for the court of King * Conveyance: At that time, there were no trains or by no means any electric channel. Nonetheless, a first-class postal system existed, that stringers used to send their news sheets to the capital. Muhammad Bin Tughlaq was the first Muslim ruler who resourcefully structured postal system in the Sub-continent. A well-known Arab voyager, Ibn-e-Batutah, quoted that there were two kinds of post. First, the pedestrians post and second through horse-riders. Horse riders trend initiated during the Mughal’s time. Amusingly, the speed of delivery was two hundred and fifty miles a day with horse-riders. * Propagation: Newspapers from all the corners of the sub-continent, sent to the capital were read aloud in the court for the King. In accordance, he used to give specific instructions. Furthermore the court had its own news-writers who covered the daily proceedings of the court and pronounced it the next day * Significance: It was the supreme intellectual potential of Muslim rulers that they shaped and established a