Mysore State: Publishing (1909)

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From Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1907 – 1909

Mysore State (Maisūr): 1909

Oldest Newspapers

Among the oldest newspapers in the vernacular were the Kāsim-ul-Akhbār in Hindustānī, started in 1863, and still published; and the Karnātaka Prakāsika in Kanarese, begun in 1865 but discontinued at the end of 1898, the editor and proprietor having fallen an early victim to plague. [S. 248]

The number of newspapers and periodicals published in the State in 1901 was 11 in English, 7 in the vernaculars, and 3 in both English and vernacular. A third of the whole treat of politics. There are five English papers with a circulation of from 200 to 500, the principal being the Daily Post (Bangalore).

All these give general news. Of the Kanarese papers, the Wesleyan Vrittānta Patrika (Mysore weekly) and Mahilāsakhi for women (Mysore monthly) have considerable circulations. Their Harvest Field (Mysore monthly) in English is also popular. The Nadegattnadi (Bangalore), Sūryodaya (Bangalore), Vrittānta Chintāmani (Mysore), are Kanarese weeklies, with circulations varying from 1,000 to 500, and give general and political news. In Hindustānī are the Kāsim-ul-Akhbār (bi-weekly), and the Edward Gazette, an old paper under a new name (weekly), both published in Bangalore, and treating of general and political news.

The Tamil paper is the Tāraka (Bangalore bi-weekly), with a circulation of 200. Of the Kanarese monthly periodicals, Vidyādāyini is a journal of education. Karnātaka Granthamālā publishes new works, and Karnātaka Kāvyakalānidhi prints old unpublished works. All these are issued in Mysore city.

Publications of books

The number of books registered in 1901 was 30, exclusive of official publications, such as the volumes of inscriptions issued by the Archaeological department. There were 3 in English, 23 in Kanarese, 1 in Telugu, and 3 in Sanskrit and Kanarese. The subjects chiefly treated of come under the heads of religion, fiction, and history.

The principal riginal works were four, of which two were based on the Rāmāyana story, one was an allegory on virtue and vice, and the other was a composition by a wife of the Mahārājā who died in 1868, on the reputed marriage of a Musalmān princess of Delhi to Cheluvarāya or Krishna, the god at Melukote, said to have taken place in the thirteenth century.

The Victoria (opened 1900) in Bangalore city, the Bowring in the Civil and Military Station, and the General Hospitals at Mysore and Shi moga, are first-class hospitals. Before the Victoria was opened, St. Martha's Hospital, founded by the Lady Superior of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, took the place of a civil hospital for Bangalore city. Second-class hospitals exist at the District head-quarters, and Local fund dispensaries at all tāluk head-quarters and large towns.