The textbook provides a detailed timeline of early Urdu journalism:

• 1822: Jam-e-Jahan Numa — first Persian weekly published, sometimes in Urdu, sometimes in Persian — a weekly, not a daily
• 14 January 1850: Kohinoor — started by Munshi Harsukh Rai as a weekly with circulation of 350 (the largest of its time)
• 1858: Urdu Guide — started by Maulvi Kabeeruddin from Kolkata — this was the FIRST Urdu daily newspaper
• Same year (1858): Roznamcha-e-Punjab started from Lahore as the second daily
• 1903: Zameendar started from Lahore — best newspaper of its time, first to use news agencies, circulation of 30,000, supported independence movement

Students commonly confuse the first publication in Urdu (Jam-e-Jahan Numa, 1822) with the first Urdu daily (Urdu Guide, 1858).