Effect of Urdu Magazines in Socialization of Muslim Women

Abstract

Urdu Magazines are the powerful means of bringing about social changes, these magazines help to accelerate the position of Muslim Women during few decades. Maulavi Mohmmed Baqir founded the first Urdu language newspaper-cum-magazine in 1836 named as Delhi Urdu Akhbar. Since then Urdu print culture took speed among the print media platforms by exhausting postal facility. As Urdu is one of the 22 official languages recognized in the Constitution of India as well as a recognized language of some states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir and the National Capital Territory, Delhi. These Urdu magazines liked in the most of the homes of these states and bought and read regularly on large scale. As per census 2011 Muslim Women have the lowest literacy rates of 51.9% among all religious communities living in India. This increased rate of literacy from earlier decades is also due to the contribution of these magazine culture spread and communicated during few decades rapidly. Women became aware and they took oath for the next generation schooling. Urdu Magazines had opened many challenges & creative door for the Muslim women. Magazines are the mirror of the society as it provide information regarding the events of the daily life through written words. These Urdu magazines for Women in Urdu, debating & discussing a range of Socio-Political, Cultural, & educational issues of women. In the time of daily serials & less habits of reading, a sub-culture of Urdu periodicals exists in Muslim households in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Hyderabad, West Bengal, Maharashtra, & Odisha. This Study attempted to know how Magazines play an important role in socialisation and educational upliftment by providing views about present or past situation of the Muslim women. Enhancement of Muslim Women’s educational and social status is very important in shaping nation’s future, as education produces better citizen in better manner for better nation building as also the contributor of higher GDP. Therefore India’s New Education Policy 2020 grabbed the profound inevitability of the women education and hence for the very first time, ECCE is well thought and put forward a comprehensive layout of preparatory and foundational stages. This article highlights at the significance as well as effect of Urdu magazines in socialization of Muslim women.