Question

Write few lines about the first nespaper published in india.

Answer 1

Answer:

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Answer 2

The Original Calcutta General Advertiser or Hicki's Bengal Gazette was an English weekly newspaper in Kolkata, the capital of British India, then in Calcutta. This was the first newspaper that was printed in Asia and it was published two years before the East India Company confiscated the printing press and newspaper forms. The daily was created by the extremely excentric, debts Irishman, James Augustus Hicky, and a vocal critic of Governor General Warren Hastings ' administration. The newspaper was important for its controversial journalism long prior to its time and its fight for free speech in India.

Explanation:

• On 29 January 1780, James Augustus Hicky published the first newspaper in India, which is known as ' The Bengal Gazette, ' under the British Raj.
• It was very small 2 sheets weekly newspaper. The paper was filled with many advertisements with the name- The Calcutta General Advertiser. In fact, its front page was filled with advertisements only. Hicky’s Gazette was priced at Re 1, expensive for the 1780s, but equivalent to newspapers in England then
• Through his newspaper Hicky's Bengal Gazette or The Original Calcutta Advertiser Hicky gave the underdog a voice that turned into an instant feeling. So much so that General Warren Hastings, Governor General, quickly tried to limit his fast growing influence.
• Hicky took a number of exposures, convinced that the power would ruin him. It gave him more persecution. Warren Hastings even prohibited the payment of the postal circulation of Hicky's newspaper and ordered it also to stop the mail containing cuttings
• Hicky's Gazette was a promoter for his time of counter-tyranny, anti-corruption, and free speech. People were depending on it to recognize' misfortunes, fraud, abuse of power.' Hicky adapted and:' walled across Western Europe and America the idea of the rights to life, equality and the achievement of good health.
• This tonality and content annoyed most high government functionaries, particularly because of Hicky’s relentless exposure of abuses of power in the government and judiciary, patronage as bribery, and rampant corruption in government contracts.

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