Maulvi Muhammad Baqir was shot dead on September 16, 1857 for writing articles in Nationalist tone. He was the first journalist to lay his life during the Independence Movement of India.
It is a hot summer evening and customers wait their turn at the local barber's shop in a prominent Muslim neighbourhood of old Lucknow.A middle-aged man, who had been going through an Urdu newspaper kept at the waiting bench, starts reading the .
The association of Urdu language with Islam in India further adds to the credibility of the Urdu Press. A Muslim will put more faith in a news piece that he reads in an Urdu newspaper as compared to a newspaper in any other language.