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Indian Freedom Struggle: Important Newspapers & Journals (List)
| Newspaper/Journal | Founder | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Bengal Gazette | James Augustus Hickey | 1780 |
| Madras Courier | Richard Johnston | 1785 |
| Bombay Herald | 1789 | |
| Young India (Weekly Journal) Navjivan (Weekly Newspaper) Harijan (Weekly Journal) |
Mahatma Gandhi | 1919 1929 1931 |
| National Herald | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1938 |
| Independent (Newspaper) |
Motilal Nehru | 1919 |
| Sambad Kaumudi (Bengali Weekly) Mirat-ul Akbar (First journal in Persian) Banga-Duta |
Raja Ram Mohan Roy | 1819 1821 1822 |
| Indian Mirror, National Paper |
Debendranath Tagore | 1862 1865 |
| Sudharak The Hitavada |
Gopala Krishna Gokhale | 1888 1911 |
| Kesari (Marathi Daily) Mahratta (English Weekly) |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak | 1881 |
| Mooknayak (Marathi Weekly) Bahishkrit Bharat |
B.R. Ambedkar | 1920 1927 |
| Prabudha Bharat (English Monthly Journal) Bartaman Bharat (Essay) Udbodana |
Swami Vivekananda | 1896 1899 1899 |
| Bande Mataram (English Newspaper) Paridarshak |
Bipin Chandra Pal | 1905 1880 |
| Bande Mataram (Paris Publication) |
Madam Bhikaji Cama | 1909 |
| Al-Hilal, Al-Balagh (Urdu Weekly Newspapers) |
Abul Kalam Azad | 1912 |
| Som Prakash (Bengali Weekly Newspaper) |
Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan | 1858 |
| New India (Daily) The Commonweal |
Annie Beasant | 1914 1915 |
| New India (Weely) |
Bipin Chandra Pal | |
| Bombay Chronicle | Pherozeshah Mehta | 1913 |
| Punjabi | Lala Lajpat Rai | |
| The Leader Hindustan Dainik |
Madan Mohan Malaviya | 1909 1936 |
| Amrita Bazar Patrika | Sisir Kumar Ghosh & Motilal Ghosh |
1868 |
| Free Hindustan (Vancouver) |
Tarak Nath Das | 1908 |
| Essays on Indian Economics | M.G.Ranade | 1899 |
| Hindustan Times | K. M. Panikkar | 1920 |
| Bangadarshana | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
1873 |
| The Statesman | Robert Knight | 1875 |
| Sudharak | Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, | 1888 |
| Yugantar | Barindra Kumar Ghosh & Bhupendra Nath Dutta |
1906 |
| Native Opinion | V.N.Mandalik | 1864 |
| Rast Goftar Voice of India |
Dadabhai Naoroji | 1851 1883 |
| The Hindu | GS Aiyar, Viraraghavchari & Subba Rao Pandit |
1878 |
| Sandhya | B.B.Upadhyaya | 1906 |
| The Tribune | Dayal Singh Majeetia | 1881 |
| Comrade (English Weekly Newspaper) |
Maulana Mohammad Ali | 1911 |
| Hindu Patriot | Girish Chandra Ghosh (later Harish Chandra Mukherji) |
1853 |
| Tehzeeb-ul-Akhlaq | Sir Syed Ahmed Khan | 1871 |
| Pratap | Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi | 1913 |
| Swadeshabhimani | Vakkom Moulavi | 1905 |
| Indian Sociologist | Shyamji Krishna Verma | |
| Vichar Lahiri | Krishnashastri Chiplunkar | 1852 |
| Talwar (Berlin) |
Birendra Nath Chattopadhyaya |
1910 |
| Kranti | Mirajkar, Joglekar, Ghate | 1927 |
| Kavivachan Sudha | Bhartendu Harishchandra | 1867 |
| Bandi Jivan | Sachindranath Sanyal | |
| Swadeshamitram(Tamil) | G.Subramaniya Iyer | 1882 |
| Navayug (Magazine) |
Muzaffar Ahmed | 1920 |
| Kerala Kaumudi | C.V. Kunhiraman | 1911 |
| Inquilab (Urdu) |
Ghulam Hussain | |
| Ghadr (San Francisco) |
Ghadar Party | |
📝SideNotes
- First Printing Press – Portuguese Saint Ignatius in Goa in 1556.
- India’s first newspaper – Bengal Gazette.
- First newspaper published in Madras Presidency – Madras Courier.
- Bombay Herald – Later renamed as Bombay Gazette, first English newspaper in Bombay.
- Mirat-ul-Akhbar – First Persian newspaper.
- Banga-Duta – 4 Language Weekly (English, Bengali, Persian & Hindi).
- Rast Goftar – First Newspaper in Gujarati.
- Bande Mataram (Paris Publication) – Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was its editor.
- Som Prakash – Under the proposal of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar.
- Bipin Chandra Pal – 'Father of Revolutionary Thoughts'
- M.G. Ranade – Father of Indian Economics.
- Sudharak – Previously edited by Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
- The Bombay Times & Journal of Commerce were later known as Times of India (TOI).