Newspapers in British India
Part 3
1875 to 1899
The Statesman
- The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper founded in 1875.
- The Statesman is a direct descendant of two newspapers, the Bombay (now Mumbai) based Indian Statesman and The Friend of India published in Calcutta.
- Robert Knight merged the two papers to The Statesman and New Friend of India on 15 January 1875.
The Hindu
- The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper which began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889.
- The Hindu was founded in Madras on 20 September 1878 as a weekly newspaper by G. Subramania Iyer.
- Started as a weekly newspaper, the paper became a tri-weekly in 1883 and an evening daily in 1889.
- Hindu is currently the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, after The Times of India.
Kesari
- Kesari is a Marathi newspaper which was founded on 4 January 1881 by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
- The newspaper was used as a spokes piece for the Indian national freedom movement.
Mahratta
- The Mahratta was the weekly English newspaper started by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, on the 2nd of January 1881.
- It was said that while the ‘Kesari’ thundered, the ‘Mahratta’ argued and persuaded.
Sanjibani Journal
- In the year 1883, Krishna Kumar Mitra launched his Bengali journal named “Sanjibani”.
- It was the first newspaper to announce the partition of Bengal on July 6th 1905.
- It also depicted the condition of the workers associated with tea plantations in Assam.
Voice of India
- Dadabhai Naoroji started the newspaper voice of India in 1883.
- It was later incorporated it into the Indian Spectator.
- The Voice of India was published monthly by The Bombay Gazette Steam Press in Bombay.
Sudharak
- Sudharak, meaning Reformer, was a newspaper in India.
- It was founded in 1888 by Gopal Ganesh Agarkar.
- It was published both in English as well as Marathi languages.
Prabuddha Bharata
- Prabuddha Bharata is an English-language monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order, in publication since July 1896.
- Prabuddha Bharata is India’s longest running English journal.
Udbodhan
- Udbodhan is the only Bengali publication of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, started by Vivekananda in January 1899.
- Before the publication of Udbodhan, the Brahmavadin and Prabuddha Bharata were being published from Madras under Vivekananda’s inspiration, but these were not the official journals of the Ramakrishna Order.
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