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.
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