Question

describe the history of bengal gazette weekly magazine

Answer 1

Hicky's Bengal Gazette or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser was an English language weekly newspaper published inKolkata (then Calcutta), the capital of British India. It was the first newspaper printed inAsia, and was published for two years, before the East India Company seized the newspaper's types and printing press. Founded by James Augustus Hicky, a highly eccentric Irishman who had previously spent two years in jail for debt, the newspaper was a strong critic of the administration of the Governor General Warren Hastings. The newspaper was important for its provocative journalism well before its time and its fight for free expression in India.

Answer 2

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Hicky's Bengal Gazette was the first English-language newspaper and the first printed newspaper to be published in both the Indian sub-continent and in Asia. The newspaper became famous not only among the British soldiers posted in India at that time but also inspired Indians to write newspapers of their own.