Civil and Military Gazette
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Publisher | E.A. Smedley |
Founded | 1872 |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | August 31, 1963 |
Headquarters | British India (later Pakistan) |
The Civil and Military Gazette was a daily English-language newspaper founded in 1872 in
History
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Editor |
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Associate editor | British India (later Pakistan) |
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Founded | 1872 |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | February 12, 1949 |
Headquarters | British India (later India) |
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Founded | February 3, 1949 |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | March 31, 1953 |
Headquarters | British India (later Pakistan) |
The Civil and Military Gazette was founded in
The Lahore and Simla editions of the paper continued to be published concurrently until 1949, when the Simla branch was closed.
The Civil and Military Gazette began publishing in Karachi a week before its branch in Simla closed. However, the CMG in Karachi was very short-lived, the publication lasting a mere 4 years.
During the CMG's publication in Lahore, Simla, and Karachi, the frequency of publication changed thrice as follows:
Date changed | Until | Frequency of Publication | Branches affected |
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January 2, 1929 | November 14, 1932 | Daily (except Tuesday) | Lahore, Simla |
November 15, 1932 | December 27, 1932 | Daily | Lahore, Simla |
June 1, 1945 | October 24, 1949 | Daily (except Monday) | Lahore, Karachi |
Notable staff members
Rudyard Kipling
The Civil and Military Gazette was the workplace of renowned British author and poet, Rudyard Kipling. It was referred to by Kipling as his "mistress and most true love."[3]
Kipling was
When Kipling joined the staff at the Lahore CMG in 1882, the
Rudyard Kipling eventually left the Civil and Military Gazette in 1887, to move to its sister-newspaper in
Mahbub Jamal Zahedi
The last editor of CMG was Abdul Hamid Sheikh, who wrote Lahore Notes under 'HS' in the Pakistan Times after the CMG shut down. Mahbub Jamal Zahedi joined the Civil and Military Gazette in 1963, at a time when its last branch, situated in Lahore, was about to cease publication. He served there for only a few months, before he moved to Dawn in Karachi.[8]
References
- ^ a b Asiamap: Archives Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved September 10, 2010.
- ^ Indian English through newspapers: By Asima Ranjan Parhi, Retrieved September 11, 2010.
- ISBN 0-521-40584-X.
- ^ a b Vicyorianweb.Org: Rudyard Kipling Chronology, Retrieved September 11, 2010.
- ISBN 0-19-860228-6
- ISBN 0-19-281652-7
- ISBN 0-19-860228-6
- ^ "MJ Zahedi no more". The Daily Star. December 26, 2008. Archived from the original on December 4, 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2010.