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{{Infobox newspaper
|name = The Civil and Military Gazette
|logo =
|image =
|caption =
|type = Daily newspaper
|publisher = E.A. Smedley
|foundation = {{Start date|1872}}
|language = English
|ceased publication = August 31, 1963
|headquarters = [[Lahore]], [[British India]] (later Pakistan)
}}

'''''The Civil and Military Gazette''''' was a daily English-language newspaper founded in 1872 in [[British India]]. It was published from [[Lahore]], [[Shimla|Simla]] and [[Karachi]], some times simultaneously, until its closure in 1963.<ref name=asiamap>[http://www.asiamap.ac.uk/newspapers/display.php?ID=15&Query=indian&Order=0&pp=15&View=0&RecView=1 Asiamap: Archives], Retrieved September 10, 2010.</ref>

==History==
{{Infobox newspaper
|name=The Civil and Military Gazette <br>
(Lahore)
|logo =
|image =
|caption =
|type = Daily newspaper
|editor = {{Unbulleted list|Stephen Wheeler (unknown-1886)|[[E. Kay Robinson]]<br />
(1886-unknown)}}
|assoceditor = [[Rudyard Kipling]] (1882–1887)
|foundation = {{Start date|1872}}
|language = English
|ceased publication = September 13, 1963
|headquarters = [[Lahore]], [[British India]] (later Pakistan)
}}

{{Infobox newspaper
|name = The Civil and Military Gazette<br>
(Simla)
|logo =
|image =
|caption =
|type = Daily newspaper
|foundation = {{Start date|1872}}
|language = English
|ceased publication = February 12, 1949
|headquarters = [[Shimla|Simla]], [[British India]] (later India)
}}

{{Infobox newspaper
|name = The Civil and Military Gazette <br>
(Karachi)
|logo =
|image =
|caption =
|type = Daily newspaper
|foundation = {{Start date|1949|02|03}}
|language = English
|ceased publication = March 31, 1953
|headquarters = [[Karachi]], [[British India]] (later Pakistan)
}}

The ''Civil and Military Gazette'' was founded in [[Lahore]] and [[Shimla|Simla]] in 1872. It was a merger of ''[[The Mofussilite]]'' in [[Calcutta]], and the ''[[Lahore Chonicle]]'' and ''[[Indian Public Opinion and Panjab Times]]'' in Lahore.<ref name=asiamap/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-pPLnk1RyHEC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=Indian+Public+Opinion+and+Punjab+Times&source=bl&ots=79EyXhL-la&sig=Mqiyo-IeA-X7X3wteL6aq83ew7A&hl=en&ei=Y3OLTKLwCILLOMHZ2eMK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEEQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Indian%20Public%20Opinion%20and%20Punjab%20Times&f=false Indian English through newspapers: By Asima Ranjan Parhi], Retrieved September 11, 2010.</ref>

The Lahore and Simla editions of the paper continued to be published concurrently until 1949, when the Simla branch was closed.

The ''Civil and Military Gazette'' began publishing in [[Karachi]] a week before its branch in Simla closed. However, the ''CMG'' in Karachi was very short lived, the publication lasting a mere 4 years.

During the ''CMG'''s publication in Lahore, Simla, and Karachi, the frequency of publication changed thrice as follows:

{| class="wikitable "
|-
! scope="col" width="200" |Date changed
! scope="col" width="200" |Until
! scope="col" width="200" |Frequency of Publication
! scope="col" width="200" |Branches affected
|-
| January 2, 1929
| November 14, 1932
| Daily (except Tuesday)
| Lahore, Simla
|-
| November 15, 1932
|December 27, 1932
| Daily
|Lahore, Simla
|-
| June 1, 1945
| October 24, 1949
| Daily (except Monday)
|Lahore, Karachi
|}

==Notable staff members==

===Rudyard Kipling===
The ''Civil and Military Gazette'' was the workplace of renowned British author and poet, [[Rudyard Kipling]]. It was referred to by Kipling as his "mistress and most true love."<ref>{{cite web|last=Kipling|first=Rudyard|year=1935|url=http://ghostwolf.dyndns.org/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/SomethingOfMyself/index.html|title=Something of mysel|publisher=public domain|accessdate=September 6, 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223004314/http://ghostwolf.dyndns.org/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/SomethingOfMyself/index.html|archivedate=February 23, 2014}}also: 1935/1990. Something of myself and other autobiographical writings. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-40584-X}}.</ref>

Kipling was [[sub-editor|assistant editor]] of the ''CMG'', a job procured for him by his father, who was [[curator]] of the [[Lahore Museum]],<ref name=vweb>[http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/kipling/rkchron.html Vicyorianweb.Org: Rudyard Kipling Chronology], Retrieved September 11, 2010.</ref> when it was decided that he lacked the academic ability to get into [[Oxford University]] on a [[scholarship]].<ref>Carpenter, Henry and Mari Prichard. 1984. Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. pp. 296–297. {{ISBN|0-19-860228-6}}</ref>

When Kipling joined the staff at the Lahore ''CMG'' in 1882, the [[editor-in-chief]] was Stephen Wheeler. 1886 brought a change of editors at the newspaper. Kay Robinson, the new editor, allowed more creative freedom and Kipling was asked to contribute short stories to the newspaper.<ref>Rutherford, Andrew (1987). Introduction to the Oxford World's Classics edition of "Plain Tales from the Hills", by Rudyard Kipling. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-281652-7}}</ref> His first collection of [[short stories]], [[Plain Tales from the Hills]], contained 28 stories that had initially found publication in the ''CMG''.<ref>Carpenter, H. and M. Prichard. 1984. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York. {{ISBN|0-19-860228-6}}</ref>

Rudyard Kipling eventually left the ''Civil and Military Gazette'' in 1887, to move to its sister-newspaper in [[Allahabad]], ''[[The Pioneer (India)|The Pioneer]]''.<ref name=vweb/>

===Mahbub Jamal Zahedi===
The last editor of CMG was Abdul Hamid Sheikh, who wrote Lahore Notes under 'HS' in the Pakistan Times after the CMG shut down.
[[Mahbub Jamal Zahedi]] joined the ''Civil and Military Gazette'' in 1963, at a time when its last branch, situated in Lahore, was about to cease publication. He served there for only a few months, before he moved to [[DAWN (newspaper)|Dawn]] in Karachi.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=68820 |title=MJ Zahedi no more |work=The Daily Star |date=December 26, 2008 |accessdate=September 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204184512/http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=68820 |archivedate=December 4, 2014 }}</ref>

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