On 29th Jan 1780 India saw its first major newspaper, Hickey's Bengal Gazette

Hickey's Bengal Gazette was an English newspaper published from Kolkata (then Calcutta), India. It was the first major newspaper in India, started in 1780. It was published for two years. Hicky's Bengal Gazette Founded by James Augustus Hicky, a highly eccentric Irishman who had previously spent two years in Jail for debt. Later on, Hicky was jailed because he earned the wrath of the Governor-General Lord Warren Hastings.


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