Question

students should make a list of national leaders in the pre independence period and the newspaper initiated by them in following format : 1. Name of the leader, 2. Name of the Newspapers, 3. special remark about newspapers
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Answer 1

Answer:

Here is the list of national leaders

and the newspapers started by them:

Bengal Gazette - J.A Hickey - 1780

An English weekly newspaper, it was

published in the Kolkata. India's first

newspaper, it was banned by East

India Company after two years of its

publication.

Kesari, Maratha - Bal Gangadhar Tilak -

1881 - Kesari was the Marathi newspaper

used as spoke pieces in the Indian National Freedom movement. Still run

by Kesari Maratha Trust and Tilak's

descendents. Maratha was an english

newspaper published from Kesari Wada,

Narayan Peth, Pune.

• Hitavada - Gopal Krishna Gokhale -

1911 Founded by Gokhale in Nagpur,

later taken over by Prohit and company.

Largest selling newspaper of central

India.

• Voice of India - Dadabhai Naoroji -

1883 - It was published in Bombay

originally but later assimilated into

Indian Spectator, another daily English

newspaper. It created awareness about

the drain of wealth by Britishers during

colonial rule in India.

• Amrita Bazar Patrika - Sisir Kumar

Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh - 1868- It is not

only the oldest newspaper in

Bangladesh but also among the oldest

ones in south Asia. Originally a Bengali

newspaper, eventually evolved into an

English dialect newspaper.

• Bande Mataram - Aurobindo Ghosh -

1905 Weekly English newspaper.

Statesman - Robert Knight - 1875 -

Daily English newspaper published

simultaneously in Kolkata, Siliguri,

Bhubaneswar, and New Delhi.