GROWTH OF INDIAN PRESS
The first newspaper that was published in India was the Bengal Gazette, a weekly general in the month of January 1780. An English paper famous as ‘Hickey’s Gazette. It was started by an Irish man James Augustus Hickey. The Samachar Darpan was the first vernacular newspaper appeared in 1818 in Bengali. It was an effort of Serampore missionaries-William Ward, William Carey and Joshua Marshman.
IMPORTANT NEWSPAPER DURING INDIA’S INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT.
| YEAR | PLACE | PAPER/JOURNAL | FOUNDER/EDITOR | COMMENTS |
| 1780 | CALCUTTA | BENGAL GAZETTE | JAMES AUGUSTUS HICKEY | INDIA’S FIRST NEWSPAPER |
| 1787 | CALCUTTA | INDIA GAZETTE | BERNARD MESSINK AND PETER REED | |
| 1784 | MADRAS | MADRAS COURIER | RICHARD JOHNSON AND HUGH BOYD | FIRST PAPER FROM MADRAS |
| 1789 | BOMBAY | BOMBAY HERALD | JAMES MACKENZIE MARSHMEN | FIRST PAPER FROM BOMBAY |
| 1818 | CALCUTTA | DIGDARSHAN | JOHN CLARK MARSHMAN | FIRST BENGALI MONTHLY |
| 1818 | CALCUTTA | SAMACHAR DARPAN | WILLIAM WARD AND OTHERS | FIRST BENGALI NEWSPAPER |
| 1818 | CALCUTTA | CALCUTTA JOURNAL | JAMES SILK BAKINGHAM | |
| 1821 | CALCUTTA | SAMVAD KAUMUDI | RAJA RAM MOHAN ROY | |
| 1822 | CALCUTTA | MIRAT-UL-AKBAR | RAJA RAM MOHAN ROY | FIRST NEWSPAPER IN PERSIAN |
| 1822 | CALCUTTA | JAM-I-JAHAN NUMAH | AN ENGLISH FIRM | FIRST PAPER IN URDU |
| 1822 | CALCUTTA | BANGDUTA | RAJA RAM MOHAN ROY, DWARAKNATH TAGORE AND OTHERS | A WEEKLY IN FOUR LANGUAGES-HINDI, BENGALI, PERSIAN AND ENGLISH |
| 1822 | CALCUTTA | BRAHMANICAL MAGAZINE | RAJA RAM MOHAN ROY | |
| 1822 | BOMBAY | BOMBAY SAMACHAR | FARDUNJEE MARZBAN | FIRST PAPER IN GUJARATI |
| 1822 | CALCUTTA | CHANDRIKA | ||
| 1831 | BOMBAY | JAM-E- JAMSHED | ||
| 1832 | MAHARSAHTRA | DARPAN | BAL GANGADHAR TILKA | |
| 1838 | BOMBAY | BOMBAY TIMES | 1861 IT BECAME THE TIMES OF INDIA | |
| 1851 | BOMBAY | RAST GOFTAR | DADABHAI NAOROJI | FIRST NEWSPAPER IN GUJARATI |
| 1852 | MAHARASHTRA | VICHAR LAHARI | KRISHNASHASTRI CHIPLUNKAR | |
| 1853 | CALCUTTA | HINDU PATRIOT | GIRISH CHANDRA GHOSH LATER HARISHCHANDRA MUKHERJI | |
| 1858 | CALCUTTA | SOM PRAKASH | DWARAKANATH VIDHYABHUSHAN. IDEA WAS OF ISHWAR CHAND VIDHYA SAGAR | FIRST BENGALI PAPER COMPLETELY DEVOTED TO POLITICS |
| 1861 | BOMBAY | THE TIMES OF INDIA | ||
| 1862 | CALCUTTA | INDIAN MIRROR | DEVENDRANATH TAGORE | |
| 1862 | CALCUTTA | BENGALEE | GIRISH CHANDRA GHOSH LATER S N BANERJEE | |
| 1862 | BOMBAY | INDU PRAKASH | GOPAL HARI DESHMUKH ‘LOKHITWADI’ | |
| 1864 | BOMBAY | NATIVE OPINION | V.N. MANDALIK | |
| 1865 | CALCUTTA | NATIONAL PAPER | DEVENDRANATH TAGORE | |
| 1867 | UTTAR PRADESH | KAVIVACHAN SUDHA | BHARATENDU HARISH CHANDRA | |
| 1868 | MADRAS | MADRAS MAIL | FIRST EVENING PAPER IN INDIA | |
| 1868 | CALCUTTA | AMRIT BAZAR PATRIKA | MOTILAL GHOSH, SHISHIR KUMAR GHOSH | INITIALLY IN BENGALI PAPER BUT BECAME ENGLISH PAPER IN 1878 TO ESCAPE VERNACULAR PRESS ACT |
| 1873 | SADHA VANI | AKSHOY CHANDRA SARKAR | ||
| 1873 | CALCUTTA | BANGADARSHANA | BANKIM CHANDRA CHATTERJEE | A BENGALI MONTHLY |
| 1875 | CALCUTTA | STATESMAN | ROBERT KNIGHT | ROBERT KNIGHT WAS CALLED ‘BAYARD OF INDIA’ BY INDIAN PRESS |
| 1876 | LAHORE | CIVIL AND MILITARY GAZETTE | ||
| 1877 | UTTAR PRADESH | HINDI PRADEEP | BAL KRISHNA BHATTA | |
| 1878 | MADRAS | HINDU | G.S.AIYAR AND VIRARAGHAVACHARI | |
| 1881 | BOMBAY | MARATHA | KELKAR AND TILAK | ENGLISH WEEKLY |
| 1881 | BOMBAY | KESARI | AGARKAR, TILAK AND CHIPLUNKAR | MARATHA DAILY |
| 1881 | CALCUTTA | BANGAVASI | JOGINDER NATH BOSE | |
| UTTAR PRADESH | HINDUSTAN | MADAN MOHAN MALVIYA | ||
| MADRAS | MODERN REVIEW | RAMANAND CHATTARJEE | ||
| MADRAS | INDIAN REVIEW | G.S. NATESHAN | ||
| CALCUTTA | SULABH SAMACHAR | KESHAV CHANDRA SEN | ||
| 1882 | MADRAS | SWADESHAMITRAM | G.S. AIYAR | A TAMIL PAPER |
| 1883 | SANJIBANI | KRISHNA KUMAR MITRA | ||
| 1899 | PATNA | HINDUSTAN STANDARD | SACHIDANAND SINHA | |
| 1906 | CALCUTTA | YUGANTAR | BARINDRA KUMAR GHOSH AND BHUPENDRA NATH DUTTA | |
| 1906 | CALCUTTA | SANDHYA | BRAHMAVANDHAV UPADHYAYA | |
| 1906 | MAHARASHTRA | KAL | ||
| 1910 | KANPUR | PRATAP | GANESH SHANKAR VIDHYARTHI | |
| 1912 | CALCUTTA | AL-HILAL | ABUL KALAM AZAD | |
| 1913 | CALCUTTA | AL-BILAG | ABUL KALAM AZAD | |
| 1913 | SAN FRANCISCO | GADAR | ||
| 1915 | MADRAS | NEW INDIA | ANNIE BESANT | |
| 1915 | MADAS | COMMONWEAL | ANNIE BESANT | |
| 1916 | BOMBAY | YOUNG INDIA | M.K.GANDHI AND INDULAL YAJNAYIK | |
| LONDON | INDIAN SOCIOLOGIST | SHYAM JI.K.VERMA | ||
| PARIS | BANDE MATARAM | BHIKAJI CAMA | ||
| BERLIN | TALWAR | BIRENDRA NATH CHATTOPADHYAY | ||
| VANCOUVER | FREE HINDUSTAN | TARAK NATH DAS | ||
| 1923 | HINDUSTAN TIMES | K.M. PANNIKAR | ||
| 1927 | MAHARASHTRA | KRANTI | MIRAJKAR, JOGELKAR AND GHATE |
