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James Augustus Hicky was an Irishman who launched the first printed newspaper in India, Hicky's Bengal Gazette.
Sep 27, 2021 · James Augustus Hicky launched the first printed newspaper of India, in January 1780, with the name Bengal Gazette. It came to be known as Hicky’s Bengal Gazette.
James Augustus Hicky is known as the father of Indian journalism. He launched India’s first newspaper, the Bengal Gazette along with the Calcutta General Advertiser, in 1780. The paper lasted just two years before being seized by the British administration in 1782 for its outspoken criticism of the Raj.
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 Governor General Warren Hastings.
Jul 13, 2016 · In the year 1780, India got its first ever newspaper and the man single-handedly made it possible was James Augustus Hickey. The champion figure of journalism has inspired a crop of dauntless journalists in India.
James Augustus Hicky’s ‘Bengal Gazette’ was India’s first newspaper. This excerpt, which features the chapter entitled ‘Open to All Parties, but Influenced by None’, presents Hicky’s ...
Nov 4, 2020 · James Augustus Hicky's Bengal Gazette reported on the troubles of native residents in Kolkata, challenged rampant corruption in the East India Company and even questioned why Britain was fighting wars in India.
The article also explores the intricate relationship between James Augustus Hickey and the authorities of his time, both British colonial rulers and local power structures.
Aug 3, 2018 · Irishman James Augustus Hicky is significant in this flow of events: Despite this long history of printing in Asia, Hicky was the first to found a newspaper, something that was printed on a regular basis and intended to convey information.
Aug 18, 2018 · In the summer of 1781, the house of James Augustus Hicky, the printer of India's first newspaper, was invaded by a mob of ‘several Europeans with Seapoys, and upwards of three or four hundred of th...
