Newspapers and Journals

Name of the Paper/Journals Name of the Founder/Editor

Bengal Gazette (1780) James Augusts Hicky(Irishman)
India Gazette (1787) Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Madras Courier (1784) (First paper from Madras)
Bombay Herald (1789) (First paper from Bombay)
Indian Herald (1795) R. Williams (Englishman) and published by Humphreys
Digdarshna (1818) (First Bengali Monthly)
Calcutta Journal (1818) JS Buckingham
Bengal Gazette (1818) (First Bengali newspaper) Harishchandra Ray
Sambad Kaumudi (1821) Raja Rammohan Roy
Marat - ul - Akbar (1822) (First journals in Persian) Raja Rammohan Roy
Jam-I-Jahan Numah (1822) (First paper in Urdu) An English firm
Banga -Dutta (1822) (a weekly in 4 lauguages Rammohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore and others
English, Bengali, Persian, Hindi)
Bombay Samachar (1822) (First paper in Gujarati)
East Indian (19th century) Henry Vivian Derozio
Bombay Times (1838) (The Times of India after foundation laid by Robert Knight, stated by Thomas
1861) Bennett.
Rast Goftar (1851) Ddabhai Naoroji
Hindu Patriot (1853) Girishchandra Ghosh (later, Harishchandra Mukerji
became owner - cum-editor)
Spmaprakasha (1858) (First Bengali political paper) Dwarkanath Vidyabhushan
Indian Mirror (Early 1862) (First Indian daily
paper in English) Devendranath Tagore
Bengalee (1862) Girishchandra Ghosh (taken over by SN Banerjee in 1879)
Madras Mail (1868) (First evening paper in India)
Amrita Bazar Patrika (1868) (In Bengali and Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh
later an English daily)
Bangadarshana (1873) (later The Statesman) Robert Knight
The Hindu (1878) GS Aiyar, Viraraghavachari and Subba Rao Pandit
Tribune (1881) Dayal Singh Majeetia
Kesari and Maharatta (1881) Tilak, Chiplunkar, Agarkar (before Tilak, Agarkar and
Prof Kelkar were the editors respectively)
Swadeshmitram G.S. Aiyar
Paridasak (1886) Bipin Chandra Pal (publisher)
Yugantar (1906) Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Bhupendranath Dutta
Sandhya (1906) Brahamabandhab Upadhyay
Kal (1906)
Indian Sociologist (London) Shyamji Krishnavarama
Mande Matram (Paris) Madam Bhikaji Cama
Talvar (Berlin) Verendranath Chattopadhyay
 Newspapers and Journals
Free Hindustan (Vancouver) Tarakanth Das
Ghadr (San franscisco) Ghadr Party
Bombay Chronicle (1913) Pherozeshah Mehta, Editor- BG Nornimam (Englishman)
The Milap (1923) MK Chand
Leader Madan Mohan Malviya
Kirti (1926) Santosh Singh
Bahishkrit Bharat (1927) BR Ambedkar
Kudi Arasu (1910) EV Ramaswamy Naicker (Periyar)
Kranti (1927) SS Mirajkar, KN Joglekar, SV Ghate
Langal and Ganabani (1927) Gopu Chakravarti and Dharani Goswami
Bandi Jivan Sachindranath Sanyal
National Herald (1938) Jawahar Lal Nehru
Al-hilal Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Comrade Mohammed Ali
Young India, Harijan (1916) Mahatma Gandhi
Nation Gopal Krishna Gokhle
Bengali Surendernath Banerjee
Som Prakash Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Karmyogi Arvindo Ghosh
Free Hindustan (Vancouver) Taraknath Das
Zamindar, Lahore Zafar Ali Khan
New India, Commonweal Annie Besant
Satpatra Series Gopal Hari Deshmukh
Din Mitra Mukundrao Patil
Kudi Arasu (1910) Periyar
Ghulamgiri (Slavery) Jotirao Phule
Maratha, Din Bandhu Bhaskar Rao Jadhav
Darpan Bal Shastri jambekar
Prabhudha Bharat, Ubbodhava Vivekananda