Newspapers in British India Part 1

Newspapers in British India Part 5

Newspapers in British India Part 5 1916 to 1947 Independent The Independent was started on February 5, 1919  by Motilal Nehru Motilal Nehru was assisted in the paper’s establishment by B G Horniman and Syed Hussain who became the Independent’s editor. The paper closed down […]

Newspapers in British India Part 1

Newspapers in British India – Part 4

Newspapers in British India – Part 4 1900 to 1915 O Heraldo O Heraldo was established as the first daily Portuguese newspaper on 21 May 1900 by Aleixo Clemente Messias Gomes in Goa. It was later transformed into an English daily in 1983, by which […]

Newspapers in British India Part 1

Newspapers in British India Part 3

Newspapers in British India Part 3 1875 to 1899 The Statesman The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper founded in 1875. The Statesman is a direct descendant of two newspapers, the Bombay (now Mumbai) based Indian Statesman and The Friend of India published […]

Newspapers in British India Part 1

Newspapers in British India – Part 2

Newspapers in British India – Part 2 1850 to 1874 Rast Goftar Rast Goftar was an Anglo-Gujarati paper operating in Bombay that was started in 1854 by Dadabhai Naoroji and Kharshedji Cama and championed social reform among Parsis in Western India.  Dadabhai Naoroji started the paper […]

Newspapers in British India Part 1

Newspapers in British India – Part 1

Newspapers in British India – Part 1 Before 1850 Bengal Gazette Bengal Gazette also known as Calcutta General advertiser is the first newspaper published in India. It was started by James Augustus Hickey in 1780 but was banned in 1872 following the anti-government editorials. Bengal […]