LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:4 April 2020
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Origin and Progression of Social Movements and Their Manifestation in the History of Tamil Periodicals

R. Subramani, Ph.D.


Abstract

Around the world, scholarly study of the history of Journalism has gained momentum. Many research institutions promote their scholars to carry out studies on the effect of institutional, social, political, economic and cultural lineage of Journalism from its genesis. Amidst many narrative structures, Textual narrations that appeared in the periodicals have redefined the history of several countries. The pre-independence epoch social history of Tamil periodicals has an enormous impetus to excavate the socio-political history of Tamil Nadu and India as well. The existing chronological history of Tamil Journalism offers basic information on the timeliness of this regional distribution of news and information. Especially, pre-independence periodicals have played a crucial role in reconstructing social organization and the way Indian independence was achieved. To materialize the objective of the study the researcher envisioned to trace the social history of pre-independence Tamil periodicals by employing a Historical Research Approach as a research method. The study ascertains the affiliation between the origin and sustenance of social movements and the social history of Tamil periodicals.

Keywords: Tamil, Journalism, Social History, Social Movements, Periodicals.

Introduction

History is not the anthology of the order of events; rather it is the manifestation of the day-to-day activities of human life. Mass Media is a powerful tool to unearth the socio, cultural, political and biological rudiments of people of ancient times. Mass media has been a reliable and trustworthy treasure of archives in preserving the events of the past. Media contents have been the primary and important resource of information for studying and investigating history. The social history of any country is known only through the media that existed from its primitive stages of a country’s growth. The history of Indian mass media is less than three hundred years old. This history is found only in chronological order and it did not accumulate the social background, cultural, political development of India. Thus, there is a need to investigate the historical background of periodicals in the light of Journalism in India.

Books and journals are the yardsticks of measuring human growth and social development in a society. Media is the horologe to apprehend the overall dimension of the people of a particular epoch. Media is the vital source of information for the researchers to comprehend the periodical changes that took place in the due course of time. Media reflects the socio-economic and cultural changes that shape the society from time to time. Thus, if one attempts to study the media of a particular time, one can entirely understand the people of that time, their characteristics and their living conditions.


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R. Subramani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
Periyar University
Salem-636011, Tamil Nadu, India
erasubramani@gmail.com

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