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Hicky's Bengal Gazette in 1781, India's first newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika in 1908, India's first Gujarati language and oldest bilingual newspaper started around 1868 Freedom of the press in British India or freedom of the press in pre-independence India refers to the censorship on print media during the period of British rule by the British ...
Company's India: First newspaper in South Asia. Published weekly from 29 January 1780 to 23 March 1782 when James Augustus Hicky's types were seized. 1780 The India Gazette or Calcutta Public Advertiser: English Calcutta: Company's India: Second newspaper in South Asia. Published weekly from 1780-11-18. Survived until 1834.
He was deported by the East India Company, before his plans could come to fruition. In January 1780, James Augustus Hicky published Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first newspaper in India. The size of that four-page newspaper was 12"x8". Hicky accused the members of the East India Company, including Governor General Warren Hastings of corruption.
Prospectus of Hicky's Bengal Gazette, printed sometime before the first issue.. Hicky's Bengal Gazette was known for its sarcastic and provocative writing style. Unlike many newspapers of its time, the newspaper discussed taboo topics like female masturbation, [16] and proto-class consciousness, arguing for the rights of the poor and against taxation without representation.
The first newspaper printed in India was Hicky's Bengal Gazette, started in 1780 under the British Raj by James Augustus Hicky. [12] Other newspapers such as The India Gazette, The Calcutta Gazette, The Madras Courier (1785), and The Bombay Herald (1789) soon followed. [12] These newspapers carried news of the areas under the British rule. [12]
The founder, a Parsi scholar and priest by the name of Fardoonji Murazban, was a pioneer not only of journalism in Western India but of all Gujarati printed literature. He founded the first native press in 1812 and in 1814 brought out a Gujarati Calendar, fully 6 years before the first Bengali calendar was printed and published in Calcutta. He ...
The first newspaper in India was circulated in 1780 under the editorship of James Augustus Hicky, named Bengal Gazette. [33] On May 30, 1826 Udant Martand (The Rising Sun), the first Hindi-language newspaper published in India, started from Calcutta (now Kolkata), published every Tuesday by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla.
The newspaper was established in February 1857 by Azimullah Khan. Its first Marathi language edition appeared in September 1857 from Jhansi. [2] It was later banned by the government for its involvement in sedition, independence movement and writing on government policies, involving rebellion groups and articles.