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‘Bengal Gazette’, the first Newspaper in India was started in 1780 by1. Dr. Annie Besant2. James Augustus Hicky3. A. O. Hume4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Answer» Correct Answer - Option 2 : James Augustus Hicky

The correct answer is James Augustus Hicky

The First Newspaper of India Hickey's Bengal Gazette was published in Calcutta in 1780.

  • Hicky's Bengal Gazette or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser was an English language weekly newspaper published in Kolkata (then Calcutta), the capital of British India.
  • It was the first newspaper printed in Asia and was published for two years, between 1780 and 1782, before the East India Company seized the newspaper's types and printing press.
  • Founded by James Augustus Hicky, a highly eccentric Irishman who had previously spent two years in jail for debt, the newspaper was a strong critic of the administration of Governor-General Warren Hastings.
  • The newspaper was important for its provocative journalism and its fight for free expression in India.

Some important newspapers and journals are- 

NewspaperEditor/Founder
Hindoo PatriotMadhusudan
Rast GoftarDadabhai Naroji
Indian MirrorDevendranath Tagore
Amrita Bazar PatrikaSisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh
SudharakGG Agarkar


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