Newspapers/journals
Year and place Name of the Paper/Journal Name of the Founder/ Editor
1780, Calcutta Bengal Gazette (also Calcutta James Augustus Hicky (Irishman)
General Advertiser)
1787, Calcutta weekly India Gazette Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
associated with it.
1784, Madras Madras Courier (First paper from Started by R. Williams
Madras) (Englishman) and published by
Humphreys
1789, Bombay Bombay Herald (First paper from J.S. Buckingham
Bombay)
1795, Madras Indian Herald (in English) Harishchandra Ray
1818, Calcutta Digdarshana (First Bengali monthly)
1818 Calcutta Journal
1818, Calcutta Bengal Gazette
(First Bengali newspaper)
1821 Sambad Kaumudi (Weekly in Raja Rammohan Roy
Bengali)
1822, Calcutta Mirat-ul-Akbar (First journal in Raja Rammohan Roy
Persian)
1822, Calcutta JP.In-i-Jaltan Nurnah(First paper in An English firm
Urdu)
1822, Calcutta Banga-Duta (a weekly in four Rammohan Roy, Dwarkanath
languages—English, Tagore and others
Bengali, Persian, Hindi)
1822, Bombay Bombay Samachar (First paper in --------
Gujarati)
East Indian (daily) Henry Vivian Derozio
1838, Bombay Bombay Times (from 1861 onwards, Foundation laid by Robert Knight,
The Times of India) started by Thomas Bennett.
1851 Rast Goftar (A Gujarati fortnightly) Dadabhai Naoroji
1853, Calcutta Hindu Patriot Girishchandra Ghosh (later,
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1853, Calcutta Hindu Patriot Girishchandra Ghosh (later,
Harishchandra Mukerji became
owner-cum-editor)
1858, Calcutta Somaprakasha (First Bengali Dwarkanath Vidyabhushan
political paper)
Early 1862, Indian Mirror Devendranath Tagore
Calcutta
1862, Calcutta Bengalee (this, and Amrita Bazar Girishchandra Ghosh (taken over
Patrika—the first vernacular by S.N. Bonnerjee in 1879)
papers)
1862 Indu Prakash • Started by Gopal Hari
Deshmukh.
• M G Ranade was associated
with it.
1865, Calcutta National Paper Devendranath Tagore
1868, Madras Madras Mail (First evening paper in ----------
India)
1868, Jessore Amrita Bazar Patiika Sisirkumar Ghosh and Motilal
District (Bengali in the beginning, later Ghosh
English, a daily)
1873, Calcutta Bangadarshana (in Bengali) Bankimchandra Chatterji
1878, Madras The Hindu (in English) G.S. Aiyar, Viraraghavachari and
Subba Rao Pandit (among the
founders)
1875, Calcutta Indian Statesman (later, The Started by Robert Knight
Statesman)
1881, Lahore Tribune Dayal Singh Majeetia
1881, Bombay Kesari (Marathi daily) and Tilak, Chiplunkar, Agarkar (before
Maharatta (English weekly) Tilak, Agarkar and Prof Kelkar
were the editors respectively)
Madras Swadeshanzitram (a Tamil paper) G.S. Aiyar
1886 Paridasak (a weekly) Bipin Chandra Pal (publisher)
1906, Bengal Yugantar (supported revolutionary Barindra Kumar Ghosh and
terrorism) Bhupendranath Dutta
1906, Bengal Sandhya (supported revolutionary Brahma bandhav Upadhyay
terrorism)
1906, Kal (supported revolutionary -----
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1906, Kal (supported revolutionary -----
Maharashtra terrorism)
London Indian Sociologist Shyamji Krishnavarma
Paris Bande Mataram • Madam Bhikaji Cama
• Aurobindo Ghosh was
associated with it.
Berlin Talvar • Founder was Virendranath
Chattopadhyay.
• madam bhikaji kama associated
with it.
Vancouver Free Hindustan Taraknath Das
San Francisco Ghadr Ghadr Party
Before 1908 Reshwa Ajit Singh
1913, Bombay Bombay Chronicle (a daily) Started by Pherozeshah Mehta,
Editor—B.G. Horniman
1920, Delhi The Hindustan Times Founded by Panikkar as part of
the Akali Dal Movement
1923, Lahore The Milap (Urdu daily) Founded by MK. Chand
1926, Punjab Leader (in English) Madan Mohan Malaviya
----- Kirti Santosh Singh
1927 Bahishkrit Bharat (Marathi B.R. Ambedkar
fortnightly)
1910 Kudi Arasu (Tamil) E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker
(Periyar)
1927, Kranti S.S. Mirajkar, K.N. Joglekar, S.V.
Maharashtra Ghate
1927, Bengal Langal and Ganabani Gopu Chakravarti and Dharani
Goswami
Bengal Bandi Jivan Sachindranath Sanyal
1938 National Herald (daily) Started by Jawaharlal Nehru
1870 Bharat Shramjeevi Sasipada Banerjii
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1880 Deenbandhu It started by Krishnarao Bhalekar.
N. M. Lokhandey was the editor.
Pathar Dabi Sharatchandra Chatterjee
Samachar Darpan (1st Vernacular J.C. Marshman
newspaper)
1898 Shome Prakash Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
New India and Commonweal Annie Besant
Bipin Chandra Pal
Prem and Nirbal Sevak Raja Mahendra Pratap. He was
the nominee of Nobel peace
prize in 1932.
Swadesimitran G. Subramaniya Aiyer
Indian opinion Mahatma Gandhi
Bengalee, Hitabadi, Sanjibani Actively used to bring awareness
against the partition of Bengal.
Vanguard M.N. Roy
Tuhfat-ul-Muwaideen Raja Rammohan Roy
Tehzeeb-ul-Akhlaq Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Sambad Pravakar (first Bengali daily Ishwar Chandra Gupta
newspaper)
Sanjibani K.k. Mitra
Sanatana Dharma (magazine) Madan Mohan Malviya
The Leader Madan Mohan Malviya
Sudharak Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Hindu patriot • First English newspaper
published by Indians
• Harishchandra Mukherjee
Vande Mataram (Urdu, Lahore) Lala Lajpat Rai
Searchlight Sacchidananda Sinha
Independent Motilal Nehru
Kaumi Awaz Jawaharlal Nehru
Prabhakar Gopal Hari Deshmukh
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