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Growth of Indian Press, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Paper/Journal Founder(s) Year Place, Bengal Gazette (First paper James Augustus 1780} Calcutta, from India) Hicky, India Gazette Not available 1787} Calcutta, Madras Courier (First paper Not available 1784] Madras, from Madras), Bombay Herald (First paper Not available 1789| Bombay, from Bombay), Digdarshana (First Bengali Not available 1818] Calcutta, monthly), Samachar Darpan (First William Carey and 1818] Calcutta, Bengali newspaper) others, Mirat-ul-Akhbar (First journal | Raja Rammohun Roy | 1822] Calcutta, in Persian), Jam-i-Jahan Numah (First An English firm 1822] Calcutta, , paper in Urdu), , , , , , , , , , , , , , Fa}

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Bangaduta (A weekly in four | Rammohun Roy. 1822] Calcutta, languages: English, Bengali, Dwarakanath Tagore, Persian and Hindi) and others, Bombay Samachar (First paper | Not available 1830] Bombay, in Gujarati), Bombay Times (It became the | Not available 1838} Bombay, Times of India in 1861), Rast Goftar (A GUjarati Dadabhai Naoroji 1851] Bombay, fortnightly), Hindu Patrir:Jr Girishchandra Ghosh | 1853] Calcutta, (Later Harishchandra, MUkerji became its, owner-cum-editor), Somaprakasha (First Bengali Dwarakanath 1858} Calcutta, paper to devote itself to Vidyabhushan, politics), Indian Mirror Devendranath Tagore | 1862] Calcutta, Bengalee Girishchandra Ghosh | 1862] Calcutta, (S N Banerji took it, over in 1879), National Paper Devendranath Tagore | 1865] Calcutta, Madras Mail (First evening Not available 1868} Madras, paper in India), Amrita Bazar Patrika (Started | Sisirkumar Ghosh 1868} Calcutta, as a Bengali paper but became, English paper in 1878 to escape, from the Vernacular Press Act), Bangadarshana (A Bengali Bankimchandra 1873] Calcutta, monthly) Chatterji, Statesman Robert Knight (called] 1875] Calcutta, the ‘Bayard of India’, by the Indian press), Hindu G. S. Aiyar and 1878] Madras, , Viraraghavachari