ROLE OF JOURNALS & MAGAZINES IN HISTORY OF MADHYA PRADESH DURING 19TH CENTURY.

The modern journal bears very little resemblance to the papers of the early 19th Century; a historical background gives us an insight to the origin and development of Indian Journals. The essence of my research work is to know and shed light upon how journals and magazines published by the press of State of Madhya Pradesh added a new ray to the development and uplift of the nation and the society. In this paper, we shall try to find out the origin of some remarkable journals and magazines of Madhya Pradesh. Under whose strong efforts these journals and magazines enhanced progressive thinking in various parts of Madhya Pradesh shall also be discussed in this paper. This will certainly make us understand how the desire of regular news reading was evolved in the masses of Madhya Pradesh. A great part of the culture of the state, past and present, is synonymous with what has been written and recorded in the contemporary journals and magazines. Although the period between 1800-1900 doesn't witnessed a remarkable growth of journals and magazines in Madhya Pradesh, the most important event which took place was the genesis of journalism in Madhya Pradesh in the form of 'Malwa Akhbar'. It was published after 69 years of 'Hicky's Gazette'.