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[[File:The Mail.jpg|thumb|250px|Office of ''The Mail'' in [[Anna Salai]], [[Chennai]]]]<br />
'''''The Mail''''', known as '''''The Madras Mail''''' till 1928, was an English-language daily evening newspaper published in the [[Madras Presidency]] (later [[Madras State]], and then, [[Tamil Nadu]]) from 1868 to 1981. It was the first evening newspaper in India.<ref name="Naqvi2007">{{cite book|author=Hena Naqvi|title=Journalism and Mass Communication|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhqnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA58|accessdate=27 June 2016|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Upkar Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7482-108-9|pages=58–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/the-mail-madras-only-english-eveninger-and-one-of-indias-oldest-newspapers-closes-down/1/391370.html | title=The Mail: Failure of circulation | publisher=[[India Today]] | work=P.S. Vaidyanathan | date=22 October 2013 | accessdate=30 June 2016}}</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
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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]]'' before resigning from editorship after a tiff-off with Gantz & Sons which owned the newspaper.{{fact|date=June 2018}} Soon, the ''Madras Mail'' emerged as a formidable rival to both ''The Madras Times'' as well as ''[[The Hindu]]''.{{fact|date=June 2018}}<br />
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In 1921, the newspaper was purchased by European businessman John Oakshott Robinson who added it to his business conglomerate.{{fact|date=June 2018}} In 1945, the newspaper was purchased by Indian business magnate [[S. Anantharamakrishnan]] and the paper was owned by Anantharamakrishnan and his family till its liquidation in 1981.{{fact|date=June 2018}}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{cite book|title=Growth of public opinion in the Madras Presidency (1858-1909)|pages=61|publisher=University of Madras|author=D. Sadasivan|year=1974}}<br />
* {{cite news|title=Memories of The Mail|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/06/11/stories/2003061100150300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031021051024/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/06/11/stories/2003061100150300.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=21 October 2003|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=11 June 2003|author=S. Muthiah|authorlink=S. Muthiah}}<br />
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