Handwritten newsletters or akhbarat were vital to the functioning of Mughal regime. Each ruler appointed his own news writer, akhbar nawis at as many focal points of the subcontinent as possible and they reported on a daily or a bi-weekly basis. This form of collection, reporting, and circulation of news was taken over by the colonial power and continued to flourish in North India right upto the Uprising of 1857. For the first time, this volume brings together ...
