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Newspapers and Founders
Important newspapers and journals of the freedom struggle with founders, language and year, for CAPF Paper I revision
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| Newspaper / Journal |
Founder or editor |
Year / language |
| Bengal Gazette (Hicky's Gazette) |
James Augustus Hicky |
1780; first newspaper in India (English) |
| Sambad Kaumudi |
Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
1821; Bengali |
| Mirat-ul-Akhbar |
Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
1822; Persian |
| The Hindu |
G Subramania Iyer and others |
1878; English |
| The Tribune |
Dyal Singh Majithia |
1881; English (Lahore) |
| Amrita Bazar Patrika |
Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh |
1868; Bengali, later English |
| Newspaper / Journal |
Founder or editor |
Year / language |
| Kesari (Marathi) and Maratha (English) |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
1881 |
| The Bengalee |
Surendranath Banerjee |
(edited from 1879) |
| Swadesamitran |
G Subramania Iyer |
Tamil |
| Hindustan (and Indian Opinion in South Africa) |
Various; Indian Opinion by Gandhi |
1903 (Indian Opinion) |
| Young India and Navajivan |
M K Gandhi |
1919 onwards |
| Harijan |
M K Gandhi |
1933 |
| Al-Hilal and Al-Balagh |
Abul Kalam Azad |
Urdu |
| Comrade and Hamdard |
Mohammad Ali |
English and Urdu |
| New India and Commonweal |
Annie Besant |
1914 |
| Independent |
Motilal Nehru |
Allahabad |
| Newspaper / Journal |
Founder or editor |
Note |
| Bande Mataram |
Aurobindo Ghosh and Bipin Chandra Pal |
Extremist organ |
| Yugantar |
Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Bhupendranath Datta |
Revolutionary (Bengal) |
| Sandhya |
Brahmabandhab Upadhyay |
Bengal |
| Ghadar |
Ghadar Party (Lala Hardayal) |
1913; from San Francisco |
| Prabuddha Bharata and Udbodhana |
Swami Vivekananda / Ramakrishna Mission |
English and Bengali |
| Som Prakash |
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar |
Bengali |
| Voice of India |
Dadabhai Naoroji |
|
| Indian Mirror |
Keshab Chandra Sen |
First Indian daily in English |
- Hicky's Bengal Gazette (1780) is the first newspaper printed in India.
- Tilak's twin papers: Kesari in Marathi, Maratha in English.
- Gandhi's papers: Young India and Navajivan (1919), then Harijan (1933).
- Azad's Al-Hilal and Al-Balagh were Urdu papers shut down by the government.