Reflections of Cultural Policies in Journals During Naseri Period

Qajar dynasty, particularly in Naseri period (i.e. Naser al-Din Shah reign), came to this understanding that they could employ cultural policies to a direct influence on people’s lives, by which established a new kind of kingly power over people. For execute such an aim, journals were one of powerful sources. Using a descriptive-analytical approach in this paper, reflections, and impressions of cultural policies in journals during Naseri period has been discussed. Studying journals publishing chronologically indicates that, like many other fundamental changes in Qajar reign, is a consequence of occurrence of Iran-Russia wars and perceiving the necessity of reforms. Professional modern journalism, as far as documents illustrate, appeared by the supports of Abbas Mirza, the then crown prince, and became more professional during Amir Kabir’s chancellery. While Iranian journalism developed more than before in Mirza Hossein Khan Sepahsalar period, Nasir al-Din Shah’s unwelcomed inferences with journalistic affairs, under cover of cultural policies, had been continued. Based on a few documents, it has been explained that how legal control of press, including censure plans, which was an example of implemented cultural policies of Naseri period on journals and prints, made journalism in exile? Mirroring, and even adopting, such policies in following movements and revolutions could be seen as a sequence of that period.