NEWSPAPER AND JOURNALS Flashcards
(35 cards)
India Gazette founder/editor?
1787, Calcutta– Henry Louis Vivian Derozio associated with it.
Indian Herald (in English) founder/editor?
1795, Madras– started by R. Williams (English-man) and published by Humphreys.
Digdarshana (first Bengali monthly) was started by?
Published by the Srirampur (Serampore) Baptist Mission and edited by John Clark Marshman who was the son of missionary Joshua Marshman in 1818 Calcutta.
Calcutta Journal was started by?
1818 by J.S. Buckingham.
Bengal Gazette (first Bengali newspaper) was started by?
1818, Calcutta by Harishchandra Ray.
Sambad Kaumudi (weekly in Bengali) started by?
Raja Rammohan Roy in 1821.
Mirat-ul-Akbar (first journal in Persian) started by?
1822, Calcutta- Raja Rammohan Roy.
Jam-i-Jahan Numah (First paper in Urdu) was started by?
An English firm in 1822, Calcutta.
Banga Duta (a weekly in four languages– English, Bengali, Persian, Hindi) was started by?
1822, Calcutta by Rammohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore and others.
Bombay Samachar (first paper in Gujarati) was started by?
Established in 1822 by Fardunjee Marzban.
East Indian (daily) was started by?
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio in 19th century.
Bombay Times (from 1861 onwards, The times of India) was started by?
Foundation laid by Robert Knight, started by Thomas Bennet in 1838.
Rast Goftar was started by?
1851 by Dadabhai Naoroji.
Hindu Patriot was started by?
1853, Calcutta by Girishchandra Ghosh (later, Harishchandra Mukerji became owner cum editor).
Somaprakasha (First Bengali political paper) was started by?
1858, Calcutta by Dwarkanath Vidyabhushan.
Indian Mirror (fortnightly first Indian daily paper in English) was started by?
Early 1862, by Devendranath Tagore.
National Paper was started by?
1865, Calcutta by Debendranath Tagore.
Madras mail (first evening paper in India) was started by?
Charles Lawson and Henry Cornish on 14 December 1868, Madras.
Bangadarshana (in Bengali) was started by?
1873, Calcutta by Bankimchandra Chatterji.
Indian Statesman (later, the Statesman) was started by?
Robert Knight, 1875, Calcutta.
The Hindu (in English)— started as weekly by?
- G.S. Aiyar, Viraraghavachari and Subba Rao Pandit (among the founders), 1878, Madras.
Tribune (daily) was started by?
Dayal Singh Majeetia in 1881, Lahore.
People associated with Kesari (Marathi daily) and Maharatta (English weekly)?
- Started in 1881, Bombay.
- Tilak, Chiplunkar, Agarkar (before Tilak, Agarkar and Prof Kelkar were the editors respectively).
Publisher of Paridasak (a weekly)?
Bipin Chandra Pal in 1886.
