HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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Lord Hastings
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Lord Minto
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Lord metcalfe
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Lord Macaulay
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Detailed explanation-1: -Samachar Darpan was a Bengali weekly newspaper published by the Baptist Missionary Society in the first half of the 19th century. It was published during the period of Lord Hastings (1813 to 1823). It is considered to be the first Indian-language newspaper.
Detailed explanation-2: -But in 1818, Lord Hasting abolished this censorship of press act and after it, India’s first vernacular paper was published, ‘Samachar Darpan’. Samachar Darpan paper was published by the Baptist Missionary Society as a weekly newspaper.
Detailed explanation-3: -Udant Martand (from Hindi, “The Rising Sun”) is the first Hindi language newspaper published in India. Started on 30 May 1826, from Calcutta (now Kolkata), the weekly newspaper was published every Tuesday by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla. It was closed on 4 December 1827 due to financial crisis.