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Complete List of Newspapers and Journals during British

India
Year and Place from
Name of the Paper/Journal Name of the Founder/Editor
which Published
Bengal Gazette 1780, Calcutta James Augustus Hickey
Sambad Kaumudi (weekly in
1821 Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Bengali)
Mirat-ul Akbar (First journal
1822, Calcutta Raja Ram Mohan Roy
in Persian)
Banga-Duta ( A weekly in
Raja Ram Mohan Roy and
four languages- English, 1822, Calcutta
Dwarkanath Tagore
Bengali, Persian, Hindi)
Bombay Times (from 1861
Robert Knight and Thomas
onwards, The Times of 1838, Bombay
Bennett
India)
Rast Goftar (A Gujarati
1851 Dadabhai Naoroji
fortnightly)
Hindu Patriot 1853, Calcutta Girishchandra Ghosh
Somprakasha 1858, Calcutta Dwarkanath Vidyabhushan
Devendranath Tagore and NN
Indian Mirror 1862, Calcutta
Sen
Bengalee (this and Amrita
Girishchandra Ghosh (taken over
Bazar Patrika- the first 1862, Calcutta
by SN Banerjea in 1879)
vernacular papers)
National Paper 1865, Calcutta Devendra Nath Tagore
Amrita Bazar Patrika
Sisirkumar Ghosh and Motilal
(Bengali in the beginning 1868, Jessore District
Ghosh
and later on English Daily)
Bangadarshana 1873, Calcutta BankimChandra Chatterjee
The Statesman 1875, Calcutta Robert Knight
GS Aiyar, Viraraghavchari and
The Hindu 1878, Madras
Subba Rao Pandit
The Tribune 1881, Lahore Dayal Singh Majeetia
Sudharak Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Hindustani and Advocate GP Verma
Kesari (Marathi daily) and
1881, Bombay Tilak, Chiplunkar, Agarkar
Maharatta (English Weekly)
Swadeshamitran Madras GS Aiyar
Paridasak (Weekly) Bipin Chandra Pal

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Yugantar 1906, Bengal
Bhupendranath Dutta
Sandhya 1906, Bengal Brhamanabandab Upadhay
Indian Sociologist London Syamji Krishna Verma
Bande Matram Parish Madam Bhikaji Cama
Free Hindustan Vancouver Taraknath Das
Ghadr San Francisco Ghadar Party
Talwar Berlin Virendrnath Chattopadhay
Pherozshahs Mehta, BG
Bombay Chronical (a daily) 1913, Bombay
Horniman
KM Pannikkar as a part of Akali
The Hindustan Times 1920, Delhi
Dal Movement
Leader (in English) Madan Mohan Malviya
Bahishkrit Bharat 1927 BR Ambedkar
E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker
Kudi Arasu (Tamil) 1910 (Periyar), SS MIrajkar, KN
Joglekar
Bandi Jivan Bengal Sachindranath Sanyal
National Herald 1938, Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru
Tagzin-ul-Akhlaq (journal) 1871 Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Kesari (Marathi Daily
1881 Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Newspaper)
Comrade (Weekly English
1911 Maulana Mohammad Ali
Newspaper)
Al- Balagh and Al-Hilal
(Both urdu weekly 1912 Abul Kalam Azad
newspaper)
Pratap (Hindi Newspaper) 1913 Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
Independent (Newspaper) 1919 Motilal Nehru
Moon Nayak (Marathi
1920 BR Ambedkar
Weekly)
Young India (Weekly
1919 M K Gandhi
Journal)
Nav Jeevan (Weekly
1929 M K Gandhi
Newspaper)
Harijan (Weekly Journal) 1931 M K Gandhi
Hindustan Dainik 1936 Madan Mohan Malviya