Century old Newspapers in India
The first newspaper in India—Hicky's Bengal Gazette—was started in 1780 under the British Raj by James Augustus Hicky. Oher Newspaper that century old are -
- The India Gazette,
- The Calcutta Gazette,
- The Madras Courier (1785),
- The Bombay Herald(1789)
- The Bombay Samachar, founded in 1822 and printed in Gujarati is the oldest newspaper in Asia still in print.
- On May 30, 1826 Udant Martand (The Rising Sun), the first Hindi-language newspaper published in India, started from Calcutta (now Kolkata), published every Tuesday by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla.
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