Tag: Maulvi Mohammad Baqar

Popularize his sacrifices for reporting events of 1857 revolt’ By Special Correspondent New Delhi:  There is a need to popularize the sacrifices of Maulvi Mohammad Baqar on a larger scale, who was the first journalist to have been martyred by the then British government for his role in the freedom movement in 1857 through his newspaper – Delhi Urdu Akhbar.    This was stressed by Syed Asghar Wajahat, noted writer, academic and former professor of Hindi, Jamia Millia Islamia while delivering the first Maulvi Mohammad Baqar Memorial Lecture organized by the Press Club...