The History of Indian Press
- Portuguese Introduced ‘Press’ in India.
- the first book was published in India in 1557. (Goa)
- In 1684, East India company established a Printing Press in Mumbai.
- James Augustus Hickey in 1780 started the “Bengal Gazette or Calcutta general advertiser, the first newspaper in India. Which was seized in 1782 because of its outspoken criticism of the government.
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy published “Sambad Kaumudi” (Bengali) in 1821. ‘Mirat ul-Akhbar’ (Persian) in 1822.
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy is called the founder of the modern press.
- In 1853, Harish Chandra Mukherjee & Girish Chandra Ghosh published ‘Hindu Patriots’ from Calcutta.
Important Journals / News Papers
- India Gazette (1787) – Henry Vivian Derozio
- Madras Courier (1784) – First Paper from Madras
- Bombay Herald (1789) – First Paper from Bombay
- Indian Herald (1795) – R. William & Humphreys
- Calcutta Journal (1818) – J. S. Buckingham
- Jam-I-Jahan Numa (1822) – First Urdu newspaper
- East Indian (19th century) – Henry Vivian Derozio.
- Bombay times (1838) – Called ‘Times of India’ after 1865.
- Foundation laid by Robert knight started by Thomas Bennett.
- Rast goftar (1858) – Dada bhai narogi
- Kesari & Maratha (English) (1881) – Tilak
- Yugantar (1906) – Barindra Kumar ghosh & Bhupendra dutta.
- Sandhya (1906) – Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay.
- Indian Sociologist, London (Shyamji Krishna Verma)
- Bande Matram (Paris) – Madam Bhikaji Kama
- Talvar (Berlin) – Virendra nath chattopadhyay
- Free Hindustan (Vancouvert) – Taraknath das
- Gadar (Sen Fransicco) – Gadar party, Lala Hardayal
- Bombay chronicle (1913) – Firozshah mehta
- Spmaprakasha (1858) – Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan (First Bengali political paper)
- Indian mirror (1862) – Devendra Nath Tagore (First Indian daily paper in English).
- Bangalee (1862) – Girish Chandra Nath Ghosh. (taken over by S. N. Mukherjee in 1879)
- Madras mail (1868) – First evening paper in India.
- Amrita Bazar (1868) – Sisir Kumar Ghosh & Motilal Ghosh (In Bengali & later an English daily)
- Bangadarshan (1873) – Bankim Chandra Chatterji
- Indian statesman (1875) – Robert knight (Later on ‘statesman’)
- The Hindu (1878) – G. S. Aiyar, Viraraghava Chari & Subbarao
- Tribune (1881) – Dayal Singh Majeethia
- The Hindustan times (1920) – K. M. Pannikar
- The Milap (1923) – M. K. Chand (Leader – Madan Mohan Malviya)
- Karmyogi – Arvindo Ghosh
- Free Hindustan – Taraknath Das – Against the Vernacular act.
- New India, common wheal – Annie Besant
- Satpatra series – Gopal Hari Deshmukh
- Din mitra – mukund rao patil
- Kudi Arasu – periyar
- Ghulamgiri – Jyotiba phule
- Mahatma, Dinbandhu – Bhaskar rao jadhav
- Darpan – Bal shastri Jambekar
- Bahiskrat bharat (1926) – Santosh Singh
- Kranti (1927) – S.S. Mirajkar, K. N. Jogelkar, S. V ghate
- Bandi jivan – Sachindra nath Sanyal.
- National Herald (1938) – J. L. Nehru
- Al-Hilal – Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- Comrade – Mohammad Ali
- Young India, Harijan – Mahatma Gandhi
- Nation – Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Bengali – Surendra nath Banerjee
- Somprakash – Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar.
- Udant Martand (1826) – Jugal Kishore, Kanpur – First Hindi News paper
- Pioneer (1865) – Julian Robbinson
- Navjeevan (1919) – Mahatma Gandhi
- Socialist (1922) – S.A. Dange
- Bharat Mitra (1941) – Bal mukund gupt, Hindi
- Hindu Patriote – Christodas Pal
- Somprakash (1859) – Inswarchand Vidyasagar
- Kavi vachan sudha (1867) – Bhartendu Harichandra
- Hindi pradip (1877) – Balkrishna Bhatt
