Complete List of Newspapers and Journals during British India
Name of the Paper/Journal | Year and Place from which Published | Name of the Founder/Editor |
Bengal Gazette | 1780, Calcutta | James Augustus Hickey |
Sambad Kaumudi(weekly in Bengali) | 1821 | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
Mirat-ul Akbar(First journal in Persian) | 1822, Calcutta | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
Banga-Duta ( A weekly in four languages- English, Bengali, Persian, Hindi) | 1822, Calcutta | Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Dwarkanath Tagore |
Bombay Times (from 1861 onwards, The Times of India) | 1838, Bombay | Robert Knight and Thomas Bennett |
Rast Goftar (A Gujarati fortnightly) | 1851 | Dadabhai Naoroji |
Hindu Patriot | 1853, Calcutta | Girishchandra Ghosh |
Somprakasha | 1858, Calcutta | Dwarkanath Vidyabhushan |
Indian Mirror | 1862, Calcutta | Devendranath Tagore and NN Sen |
Bengalee (this and Amrita Bazar Patrika- the first vernacular papers) | 1862, Calcutta | Girishchandra Ghosh (taken over by SN Banerjea in 1879) |
National Paper | 1865, Calcutta | Devendra Nath Tagore |
Amrita Bazar Patrika (Bengali in the beginning and later on English Daily) | 1868, Jessore District | Sisirkumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh |
Bangadarshana | 1873, Calcutta | BankimChandra Chatterjee |
The Statesman | 1875, Calcutta | Robert Knight |
The Hindu | 1878, Madras | GS Aiyar, Viraraghavchari and Subba Rao Pandit |
The Tribune | 1881, Lahore | Dayal Singh Majeetia |
Sudharak |
| Gopal Ganesh Agarkar |
Hindustani and Advocate |
| GP Verma |
Kesari (Marathi daily) and Maharatta (English Weekly) | 1881, Bombay | Tilak, Chiplunkar, Agarkar |
Swadeshamitran | Madras | GS Aiyar |
Paridasak (Weekly) |
| Bipin Chandra Pal |
Yugantar | 1906, Bengal | Barindra Kumar Ghosh and 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 |
Bombay Chronical (a daily) | 1913, Bombay | Pherozshahs Mehta, BG Horniman |
The Hindustan Times | 1920, Delhi | KM Pannikkar as a part of Akali Dal Movement |
Leader (in English) |
| Madan Mohan Malviya |
Bahishkrit Bharat | 1927 | BR Ambedkar |
Kudi Arasu (Tamil) | 1910 | E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker (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 Newspaper) | 1881 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
Comrade (Weekly English Newspaper) | 1911 | Maulana Mohammad Ali |
Al- Balagh and Al-Hilal (Both urdu weekly newspaper) | 1912 | Abul Kalam Azad |
Pratap (Hindi Newspaper) | 1913 | Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi |
Independent (Newspaper) | 1919 | Motilal Nehru |
Moon Nayak (Marathi Weekly) | 1920 | BR Ambedkar |
Young India (Weekly Journal) | 1919 | M K Gandhi |
Nav Jeevan (Weekly Newspaper) | 1929 | M K Gandhi |
Harijan (Weekly Journal) | 1931 | M K Gandhi |
Hindustan Dainik | 1936 | Madan Mohan Malviya |
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