Important Newspapers and Journals
Bengal Gazette | James Augustus Hicky (Irishman) |
India GazetteEast Indian | Henry Louis Vivian Derozio |
Digdarshana (First Bengal Monthly) | Edited by John Clark Marshman |
Sambad Kaumudi (Bengali) Mirat-ul-Akbar (First journal in Persia) | Raja Rammohan Roy |
Rast Goftar (Gujarati) Voice of India | Dadabhai Naoroji |
Banga-Duta (a weekly 1822, Calcutta in four languages—English, Bengali, Persian, Hindi) | Rammohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore and others |
Hindu Patriot | Girishchandra Ghosh (later, Harishchandra Mukerji became owner-cum-editor) |
Somaprakasha (First Bengali political paper) | Dwarkanath Vidyabhushan(Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar wrote articles in this newspaper) |
Indian Mirror (fortnightly— first Indian daily paper in English) | Devendranath Tagore |
Bengalee (this, and Amrita Bazar Patrika—the first vernacular papers) | Girishchandra Ghosh (taken over by Surendranath Banerjea in 1879) |
Amrita Bazar Patrika | Sisirkumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh |
Bangadarshana (in Bengali) | Bankimchandra Chatterji |
Indian Statesman | Started by Robert Knight |
The Hindu (in English) | G.S. Aiyar, Viraraghavachari and Subba Rao Pandit |
Tribune | Dayal Singh Majeetia |
Kesari (Marathi daily) Maharatta (English weekly) | Tilak, Chiplunkar, Agarkar(before Tilak, Agarkar and Prof Kelkar were the editors respectively) |
Swadeshamitram (a Tamil paper) | G.S. Aiyar |
Paridasak | Bipin Chandra Pal (publisher) |
Yugantar | Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Bhupendranath Dutta |
Sandhya | Brahmabandhab Upadhyay |
Kal (Maharashtra) | |
Indian Sociologist (London) | Shyamji Krishnavarma |
Bande Mataram (Paris) | Madam Bhikaji Cama |
Talvar (Berlin) | Virendranath Chattopadhyay |
Free Hindustan (Vancouver) | Taraknath Das |
Ghadr (San Francisco) | Ghadar Party |
Reshwa | Ajit Singh |
Bombay Chronicle | Started by Pherozeshah Mehta, Editor—B.G. Horniman (Englishman) |
Leader (in English) Hindustan Dainik | Madan Mohan Malaviya |
Bahishkrit Bharat (Marathi fortnightly) Mook Nayak | B.R. Ambedkar |
Kudi Arasu (Tamil) | E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker (Periyar) |
Bandi Jivan | Sachindranath Sanyal |
National Herald (daily) | Started by Jawaharlal Nehru |
Link and Patriot | Aruna Asaf Ali |
Inquilab Patra | Ram Manohar Lohia |
Indian Opinion Young India Nav Jeevan Harijan | M.K. Gandhi |
Comrade | Maulana Mohammad Ali |
Al-Balagh Al-Hilal | Abdul Kalam Azad |
New India Common Weal | Annie Beasant |
Independent | Motilal Nehru |
Sudharak | Gopal Ganesh Agarkar and Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
Theosophist | Helena Blavatsky |
Stray Feathers | A.O.Hume |
Broken Wings Bird of Time Golden Threshold | Sarojini Naidu |
Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq | Syed Ahmad Khan |