SSC
INDIAN HISTORY
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Question
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Who started the first English newspaper in India?
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Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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Raja Rammohan Roy
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J.A. Hickey
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Lord William Bentick
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Hicky’s Bengal Gazette was also known as the Original Calcutta General Advertiser. It was an English language weekly that was started by James Augustus Hicky, a rather eccentric Irishman. The newspaper was published in Calcutta, the centre of colonial India during that time.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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