''The Mail'', known as ''The Madras Mail'' till 1928, was an English-language daily evening newspaper published in the

Madras Presidency The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, also known as Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the ...

(later

Madras State Madras State was a state of India during the mid-20th century. At the time of its formation in 1950, it included the whole of present-day Tamil Nadu (except Kanyakumari district), Coastal Andhra, Rayalaseema, the Malabar region of North and c ...

, and then,

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

) from 1868 to 1981. It was the first evening newspaper in India which is now operating as a news and media website.

History

The ''Madras Mail'' was started by two journalists, Charles Lawson and Henry Cornish on 14 December 1868. Lawson and Cornish had earlier served as editors in ''

The Madras Times ''The Madras Times'' was an English-language newspaper which was published in the then Madras Presidency from 1835 to 1921. History Madras-historian, S. Muthiah claims that ''The Madras Times'' was founded as a bi-weekly in 1835-36, though ...

'' before resigning from editorship after a tiff-off with Gantz & Sons which owned the newspaper. Soon, the ''Madras Mail'' emerged as a formidable rival to both ''The Madras Times'' as well as ''

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...

''. In 1921, the newspaper was purchased by European businessman John Oakshott Robinson who added it to his business conglomerate. In 1945, the newspaper was purchased by Indian business magnate

S. Anantharamakrishnan Sivasailam Anantharamakrishnan (1905 – 18 April 1964), affectionately called "J" was an Indian industrialist and business tycoon who founded and led the Amalgamations Group of industries from 1945 to 1964. Anantharamakrishnan was born in ...

and the paper was owned by Anantharamakrishnan and his family till its liquidation in 1981.

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