Chapter-35 :
Important Newspapers During Indian Freedom Struggle
Arora IAS Class Notes
| Magazines/books/News Paper (Year) | Place of Publication | Name of Founder/Editor | Details |
| Bengal Gazette (Calcutta General Advertiser), (1780) |
Calcutta | Augustus Hickey | The first newspaper (weekly) was started in India. |
| Madras Courier (1784-85) | Madras | Richard Johnston. | First paper from Madras. |
| India Gazette (1787) | Calcutta | Derozio was associated with it. | |
| Bombay Herald (1789) | Bombay | James Mackenzie Maclean | First paper from Bombay. |
| Indian Herald (1795) | Madras | Started by R. Williams | Published in English by Humphreys. |
| Digdarshana (1818) | Calcutta | John Clark Marshman | First Bengali monthly. |
| Calcutta Journal (1818) | Calcutta | J.S. Buckingham | |
| Bengal Gazette (1818) | Calcutta | Harishchandra Ray | First Bengali newspaper. |
| Sambad Kaumudi (1821) | Calcutta | Raja Ram Mohan Roy | Weekly in Bengali. |
| Mirat-ul-Akbar (1822) | Calcutta | Raja Ram Mohan Roy | First journal in Persian. |
| Jam-i-Jahan Numah (1822) | Calcutta | An English Firm | First paper in Urdu |
| Banga-Duta (1822) | Calcutta | Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore and others | A weekly in four Languages English, Bengali, Persian,Hindi |
| Bombay Samachar (1822) | Bombay | Fardunjee Marzban | First paper in Gujarati |
| East Indian (daily) | Henry Vivian Derozio | ||
| Bombay Times (1838) | Bombay | Founded by Robert Knight and started by Thomas Bennett. | Became The Times of India’ from 1861 onwards, |
| Rast Goftar (1851) | Dadabhai Naoroji | a Gujarati Fortnghtly | |
| Hindu Patriot (1853 ) | Calcutta | Girishchandra Ghosh (later, Harishchandra Mukherjee became owner-cum-editor) | |
| Somaprakasha (1858) | Calcutta | Dwarkanath Vidyabhushan | First Bengali political paper |
| Indian Mirror (1862) | Calcutta | Devendranath Tagore | Fortnightly-first Indian daily paper in English |
| Bengalee (1862) | Calcutta | Girishchandra Ghosh (taken over by S.N. Banerjee in 1879) | This along with Amrita Bazar Patrika are the first vernacular paper |
| National Paper (1865) | Calcutta | Devendranath Tagore | |
| Madras Mail (1868) | Madras | First evening paper in India | |
| Amrita Bazar Patrika (1868) | Jessore District | Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh | A daily, initially in Bengali but later converted to English. |
| Bangadarshan (1873) | Calcutta | Bankimchandra Chatterji | It was in Bengali |
| Indian Statesman (1875) | Calcutta | Started by Robert Knight | Later It was called as The Statesman. |
| Pioneer (1876) | Allahabad | George Allen | In English |
| Deenbandhu (1877) | Pune | Krishnarao Pandurang Bhalekar | first newspaper in India to cater explicitly to the labouring people |
| The Hindu (1878) | Madras | G.S. Aiyar, Viraraghavachari and Subba Rao Pandit |
Started as English weekly newspaper |
| Tribune ( 1881) | Lahore | Dayal Singh Majeetia | A daily newspaper |
| Kesari (1881) | Bombay | Tilak, Chiplukar, Agarkar | Marathi daily |
| Maharatta (1881) | Bombay | Tilak, Chiplukar, Agarkar | English weekly |
| Swadeshamitram | Madras | G.S.Aiyar | A Tamil paper |
| Paridasak (1886) | Bipin Chandra Pal | A weekly | |
| Yugantar (1906) | Bengal | Barindra Kumar Gosh and Bhupendranath Dutta | |
| Sandhya (1906) | Bengal | Brahmabandhab Upadhyay | |
| Kal (1906) | Maharashtra | ||
| Indian Sociologist (1908) | London | Shyamji Krishnavarma | Started as part of freedom struggle in other country. |
| Bande Mataram (1909) | Paris | Madam Bhikaji Cama | |
| Talvar (1909) | Berlin | Virendranath Chattopadhyay | |
| Free Hindustan (1907) | Vancouver | Taraknath Das | English version |
| Ghadar (1913) | San Francisco | Gadar party | In Punjabi and English |
| Reshwa (1908) | Ajit Singh | ||
| Al-Hilal (1912) | Calcutta | Abul Kalam Azad | Urdu |
| Al-Balagh (1914) | Calcutta | Abul Kalam Azad | Urdu |
| Bombay Chronicle (1913) | Bombay | Pherozeshah Mehta | |
| Commonweal (1914) | Madras | Annie Besant | a weekly newspaper |
| Independent (1919) | Motilal Nehru | An English weekly | |
| Young India (1919) | Ahmedabad | Mahatma Gandhi | In English |
| Satya (1919) | Mahatma Gandhi | ||
| Navjivan (1919) | Ahmedabad | Mahatma Gandhi | In Gujarati |
| Harijan | Pune | Mahatma Gandhi | In Hindi and Gujarati |
| The Hindustan Times (1920) | Delhi | K.M. Panikkar | Founded as part of Akali Dal Movement |
| The Milap (1923) | Lahore | M.K. Chand | Urdu daily |
| Leader (1924) | Allahabad | Madan Mohan Malaviya | It was in English |
| Kirti (1926) | Punjab | Santosh singh | |
| Bahishkrit Bharat (1927) | Bombay | B. R. Ambedkar | A Marathi fortnightly |
| Kudi Arasu (1910) | Madras | E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker | Tamil Paper |
| Kranti (1927) | Maharashtra | S.S. Mirajkar, K.N.Joglekar, S.V.Ghate |
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| Langal and Ganabani (1927) | Bengal | Gopu Chakravarti and Dharani Goswami |
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| Bandi Jivan (1922) | Bengal | Sachindranath Sanyal | |
| National Herald (1938) | New Delhi | Jawaharlal Nehru | A daily newspaper |
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