Modern History Simplified: Important Newspapers and Journals during freedom struggle

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 PatriotGirishchandra 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 PatrikaSisirkumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh
Bangadarshana (in Bengali)Bankimchandra Chatterji
Indian StatesmanStarted by Robert Knight
The Hindu (in English)G.S. Aiyar, Viraraghavachari and Subba Rao Pandit
TribuneDayal 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
ParidasakBipin Chandra Pal (publisher)
YugantarBarindra Kumar Ghosh and Bhupendranath Dutta
SandhyaBrahmabandhab 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
ReshwaAjit 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 JivanSachindranath 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
TheosophistHelena Blavatsky
Stray FeathersA.O.Hume
Broken Wings
Bird of Time
Golden Threshold
Sarojini Naidu
Tahzib-ul-AkhlaqSyed Ahmad Khan

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