Civil and Military Gazette

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The Civil and Military Gazette
TypeDaily newspaper
PublisherE.A. Smedley
Founded1872 (1872)
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publicationAugust 31, 1963
Headquarters Lahore, British India (later Pakistan)

The Civil and Military Gazette was a daily English-language newspaper founded in 1872 in British India. It was published from Lahore, Simla and Karachi, some times simultaneously, until its closure in 1963. [1] The archives are owned by Lahore-based businessman Humayun Naseer Shaikh and have been digitized by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's Citizens Archive of Pakistan.

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History

The Civil and Military Gazette
(Lahore)
TypeDaily newspaper
Editor
Associate editor Rudyard Kipling (1882–1887)
Founded1872 (1872)
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publicationSeptember 13, 1963
Headquarters Lahore, British India (later Pakistan)
The Civil and Military Gazette
(Simla)
TypeDaily newspaper
Founded1872 (1872)
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publicationFebruary 12, 1949
Headquarters Simla, British India (later India)
The Civil and Military Gazette
(Karachi)
TypeDaily newspaper
FoundedFebruary 3, 1949 (1949-02-03)
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publicationMarch 31, 1953
Headquarters Karachi, British India (later Pakistan)

The Civil and Military Gazette was founded in Lahore and Simla in 1872. It was a merger of The Mofussilite in Calcutta, and the Lahore Chonicle and Indian Public Opinion and Panjab Times in Lahore. [1] [2]

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 changedUntilFrequency of PublicationBranches affected
January 2, 1929November 14, 1932Daily (except Tuesday)Lahore, Simla
November 15, 1932December 27, 1932DailyLahore, Simla
June 1, 1945October 24, 1949Daily (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 assistant editor of the CMG, a job procured for him by his father, who was curator of the Lahore Museum, [4] when it was decided that he lacked the academic ability to get into Oxford University on a scholarship. [5]

When Kipling joined the staff at the Lahore CMG in 1882, the editor-in-chief was Stephen Wheeler. 1886 brought a change of editors at the newspaper. Kay Robinson, the new editor, allowed more creative freedom, and Kipling was asked to contribute short stories to the newspaper. [6] His first collection of short stories, Plain Tales from the Hills , contained 28 stories that had initially found publication in the CMG. [7]

Rudyard Kipling eventually left the Civil and Military Gazette in 1887, to move to its sister-newspaper in Allahabad, The Pioneer . [4]

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]

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