Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
The first newspaper, Hicky's Bengal Gazette, was banned in 1782 because of criticisms of the East India Company. A later newspaper editor, William Duane (journalist) was deported. Due to the press's criticisms, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley regulated the press in 1799, according to which the press had to get approval of the ...
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.
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 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.
These newspapers carried news of the areas under the British rule. [12] The Bombay Samachar, founded in 1822 and printed in Gujarati is the oldest newspaper in Asia still in print. [13] On 30 May 1826 Udant Martand (The Rising Sun), the first Hindi-language newspaper published in India, started from Calcutta (now Kolkata), published every ...
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.
The Bombay Chronicle was an English-language newspaper, published from Mumbai (then Bombay), [1] started in 1910 by Sir Pherozeshah Mehta (1845–1915), a prominent lawyer, who later became the president of the Indian National Congress in 1890, [2] and a member of the Bombay Legislative Council in 1893. [3] J. B.