Hickey's Bengal Gazette - 1779 (India's first English newspaper)

Founded by James Augustus Hickey (surname) or Hicky, a highly eccentric Irishman who had previously spent two years in gaol for debt. Later on, Hickey was jailed because he earned the wrath of the then Governor-General Lord Warren Hastings. He would mostly write articles criticising the activities of Lady Hastings, Lord Hasting's wife. Hickey continued to write from jail until his movable types were seized from him under Lord Hasting's orders. Hickey's Bengal Gazette or the Calcutta General Advertiser was the first English language newspaper, and indeed the first printed newspaper, to be published in the Indian sub-continent. The newspaper soon became very famous not only among the British soldiers posted in India at that time, it also inspired the Indians to write newspapers of their own.

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