PROGRESS OF THE NATIVE PRESS OF INDIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1797, 23 March 1888, Page 3

PROGRESS OF THE NATIVE PRESS OF INDIA.

The leading native journal of Hyderabad, the Shauk-nl-Isal — a weekly newepaper of sixteen p^gea, printed In Urdu -his lately made an advance by giving English translations of its more important article?; This m Itaelf wonld, perhaps, be scarcely worth no Ice, but the artiole In which it annonnoes this Intention is remarkable, emanating, as it does from Conservative Hyderabad. Jt Baya : — * It Is our intention from this week lo give English translations of our more Important articles. The times wo liva m are more cf a cosmopolitan than an exclusive charactor. The spread of ; education, culture, and refinement have thrown aa it were, into the back-graund that Belfiah excluslver.ess which forms a permanent characteristic of a semi-barbarous olvitiaa- , tlon, and h*ve hardly failed to give us a oomprehenelren ■: of grasp and a breadth of vision which seem to bring home to our mlndß that our safety lies ln being the parts and parcels of a homogeneous whole. The silken cords of British Imperialism are driving us all to a common fold, and we have already begun to experience something like a general idea of a public spirit which seems incapable of be.Dg bound by the narrow considerations of religion, caste or creed. It ia not at all impolitic to say tho advancing tide of civilisation tends to place, more and moro, the destinies of the native States within the pale of the beneficial influence of Imperial policy. It is, therefore, all but neceasary for us to follow the unmistakeable tendencies of the times m order to better ensure the interests of our Government and tho welfare oE the people, by making our vo ; ce heard within the Council Chamber of the Imperial Government Wo need hardly givo a fresh assurance to our readers tout our policy will continue to be based oa that fearless love of truth and moderateness of tone whioh ought to form the beau ideal of Indian iourna\ism."