Question

10. Name the first English newspaper in India.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Hicky's Bengal Gazette was the first English-language newspaper published on the Indian subcontinent. It was founded in Calcutta, capital of British India at the time, by Irishman James Augustus Hicky in 1779.

Answer 2

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Hicky's Bengal Gazette

As free thought and freedom of expression swept across the world, an Irishman called James Augustus Hicky gave Calcutta and India its first printed newspaper in 1780. Hicky's Bengal Gazette, according to the young American scholar Andrew Otis, was a four-page weekly newspaper priced at ₹1

James Augustus Hicky

In 1766, a Dutch adventurer, William Bolts, proposed starting a newspaper for the English audience in Calcutta. He was deported by the East India Company, before his plans could come to fruition. In January 1780, James Augustus Hicky published Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first newspaper in India.

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