Major newspapers published in India:
The history of newspapers in India begins with the entry of Europeans into India. The Portuguese are credited with first bringing the printing press to India. In 1557 AD, some clergy of Goa published the first book of India. In 1684 AD, the British East India Company also printed India's first book.
In 1684 AD, the company established the first printing press in India. After which in the year 1780 AD the first English newspaper was published in Kolkata by J. Augustus.
List of English (British) India Newspapers:
| Establishment year and location | Newspaper and Language | Founder |
| 1780 (Calcutta) | Bengal Gazette, English | J.Augustus |
| 1816 (Calcutta) | Bengal Gazette, English | Gangadhar Bhattacharya |
| 1818 (Calcutta) | News Mirror, Bengali | Marshman |
| 1818 (Calcutta) | Digdarshan, Bengali | Marshman |
| 1821 (Calcutta) | Dialogue Kaumudi, Bengali | Raja Rammohan Roy |
| 1822 (Calcutta) | Miratul Akhbar, Farsi | Raja Rammohan Roy |
| 1822 (Bombay) | Bombay News, Gujarati | Fardunji Marzban |
| 1826 (Kanpur) | Udanta Martand, Hindi | Jugal Kishore |
| 1830 (Calcutta) | Bangdutt, Bengali | Dwarikanath Tagore, Prasanna Tagore |
| 1832 (Bombay) | Jame Jamshed, the Persian | P.M. motibala |
| 1851 (Bombay) | Raft Goftar, Gujarati | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| 1852 (Ahmedabad) | Satya Prakash, Gujrati | Karsondas Mulji |
| 1853 (Calcutta) | Hindu Pertiant, English | Girishchandra Ghosh, Harishchandra Mukherjee |
| 1859 (Calcutta) | Som Prakash, Bengali | Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar |
| 1861 (Calcutta) | Indian Mirror, English | Devendra Nath Tagore, Manmohan Ghosh |
| 1861 (Bombay) | Times of India, English | English Press (Robert Knight) |
| 1862 (Bombay) | Indu Prakash, Marathi | Justice Ranade |
| 1864 (Bombay) | Native Opinion, English | VN Mandlik |
| 1865 (Allahabad) | Pioneer, English | English Press (Robert Knight) |
| 1866 (Lahore) | Gyan Pradini, Hindi/Bengali | Navinchandra Rai |
| 1867 (Varanasi) | Poetry Sudha, Hindi | Bhartendu Harishchandra |
| 1868 (Calcutta) | Amrit Bazar Magazine, Bengali/English | Motilal Ghosh, Sisir Ghosh |
| 1868 (Madras) | Madras Mail,English | English Press (Robert Knight) |
| 1873 (Calcutta) | Bang Darshan, Bengali | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| 1877 (Lahore) | Tribune, English | Sir Dayal Singh Majithia |
| 1877 (Varanasi) | Hindi Pradeep, Hindi | Balkrishna Bhatt |
| 1878 (Calcutta) | Statesman, English | Robert Knight |
| 1878 (Madras) | Hindu, English | V.Raghavachari |
| 1879 (Calcutta) | Bengali,English | S.N. Banerjee |
| 1881 (Calcutta) | Bangwasi, Bangla | Jogindernath Bose |
| 1881 (Bombay) | Maratha, English | Balgangadhar Tilak |
| 1881 (Bombay) | Kesari,Marathi | Balgangadhar Tilak |
| 1890 (Bombay) | India,English | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| 1899 (Delhi) | Hindustan Standard (Review), English | Sachchidanand Sinha |
| 1900 (Madras) | Indian Review, English | G.A. Natesan |
| 1903 (D.Africa) | Indian Opinion, English | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1905 (London) | Indian Socialist, English | Shyamji Krishna Verma |
| 1906 (Calcutta) | Yugantar, Bengali | Bhupendra Dutt, Barindra Ghosh |
| 1907 (Calcutta) | Modern Review, English | Ramanand Chatterjee |
| 1909 (Paris) | Vande Mataram, English | Hardayal, Shyamji Krishna Verma |
| 1910 (Kanpur) | Pratap, Hindi | Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi |
| 1912 (Calcutta) | Al Hilal, Urdu | Abul Kalam Azad |
| 1913 (Bombay) | Bombay Chronicle, English | Firozeshah Mehta |
| 1913 (San Francisco) | Gadar, English | Lala Hardayal |
| 1914 (Bombay) | Commonwealth, English | Annie Besant |
| 1914 (Bombay) | New India, English | Annie Besant |
| 1918 (Madras) | Servants of India, English | Srinivasa Shastri |
| 1919 (Allahabad) | Independent, English | Motilal Nehru |
| 1919 (Ahmedabad) | Navjeevan, Gujarati | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1919 (Ahmedabad) | Young India, English | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1922 (Bombay) | Hindustan Times, English | K. M. Panicker |
| 1933 (Pune) | Harijan, English | Mahatma Gandhi |
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