There has been no complete documentation of the history of Kannada journalism and the research studies are far and few. The original work in Kannada journalism was started by eminent researcher Srinivasa Havanur who corrected many facts and provided leads while tracing the history but could not complete the work due to non-availability of literature.

Further, the growth of Kannada journalism in post modernization period has not been done by any researcher. Therefore, this project has documented the history of press in Karnataka using scientific method and has digitized the copies of such newspapers of archival value for posterity.

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