Newspapers during Indian Freedom Struggle
Newspapers & Journals is a vital topic in Modern History. 1-2 questions are asked yearly from Newspapers and Journals during British India along with their founders. Here we have compiled a complete list of Newspapers during the freedom struggle and important journals with their founders.
| Year | Name | Newspaper/ Journal | Founder |
| 1780 | Bengal Gazette | English newspaper | James Augustus Hicky |
| 1780 | India Gazette | English weekly newspaper | Bernard Messink and Peter Reed. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was associated with it. |
| 1789 | Bombay Herald (Bombay Gazette) | English newspaper | — |
| 1819 | Samvad Kaumudi | Bengali weekly newspaper | Ram Mohan Roy |
| 1822 | Mirat-ul-Akbar | Persian language journal | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| 1822 | Banga-Duta | Weekly in four languages— English, Bengali, Persian, Hindi | Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Dwarkanath Tagore |
| 1838 | Bombay Times (From 1861 onwards, The Times of India) | English newspaper | R. N. D. Velkar; (Robert Knight changed the name) |
| 1853 | Hindoo Patriot | English weekly | Madhusudan Ray |
| 1854 | Rast Goftar | Gujarati Newspaper | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| 1858 | Som Prakash | Weekly newspaper | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar |
| 1862 | Indian Mirror | Newspaper | Devendra Nath Tagore |
| 1862 | Bengalee | English Newspaper | Girish Chandra Ghosh (Taken over by Surendranath Banerjee in 1879) |
| 1868 | Amrita Bazar Patrika | Newspaper | Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh |
| 1871 | Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq | Journal | Sir Syed Ahmed Khan |
| 1878 | The Hindu | English Newspaper | G.S. Aiyar, Viraraghavachari and Subha Rao Pandit |
| 1881 | Kesari | Marathi Newspaper | B.G. Tilak |
| 1881 | Mahratta | English weekly | B.G. Tilak |
| 1881 | The Tribune | English daily | Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia |
| 1888 | Sudharak | Newspaper | Gopal Ganesh Agarkar |
| 1896 | Prabuddha Bharata | English monthly journal | P. Aiyasami, B. R. Rajam Iyer, G. G. Narasimhacharya, and B. V. Kamesvara Iyer at the behest of Swami Vivekananda |
| 1899 | Udbodhana | Magazine | Swami Vivekananda |
| 1903 | Indian Opinion | Newspaper | M. K Gandhi |
| 1905 | Bande Mataram | English language newspaper | Aurobindo Ghosh |
| 1906 | Yugantar | Bengali newspaper | Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Abhinash Bhattacharya and Bhupendranath Dutt |
| 1910 | Bombay Chronicle | English-language newspaper | Firoze Shah Mehta |
| 1911 | Comrade | Weekly English newspaper | Maulana Mohammad Ali |
| 1912 | Al-Balagh | Urdu weekly newspaper | Abul Kalam Azad |
| 1912 | Al-Hilal | Urdu weekly newspaper | Abul Kalam Azad |
| 1913 | Pratap | Hindi language newspaper | Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi |
| 1914 | New India | English-language daily newspaper | Annie Besant |
| 1919 | Independent | Newspaper | Motilal Nehru |
| 1919 | Young India | Weekly journal | M. K Gandhi |
| 1920 | Mook Nayak | Marathi weekly | B.R. Ambedkar |
| 1924 | Hindustan Times | English daily newspaper | Sunder Singh Lyallpuri |
| 1927 | Bahishkrit Bharat | Marathi journal | B.R. Ambedkar |
| 1929 | Navjivan | Weekly newspaper | M. K Gandhi |
| 1932 | Harijan | Weekly journal | M. K Gandhi |
| 1936 | Free Hindustan | Journal | Tarak Nath Das |
| 1936 | Hindustan Dainik | Hindi newspaper | M.M. Malviya |
| 1938 | National Herald | English newspaper | Jawaharlal Nehru |
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