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Hindi Journalism Day: Learn About The First Hindi Newspaper Udant Martand Journalist British Rule Pt Jugal Kishore Shukla - हिंदी पत्रकारिता दिवस: जानें हिंदी के पहले समाचार पत्र और उन पत्रकारों के बारे में, जिन्होंने हिला दी थी ब्रिटिश हुकूमत amarujala.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from amarujala.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy in London (1833), portrait by Rembrandt Peale. In mid-eighteenth century Mughal India, slowly but surely, the old was giving way to the new in complex ways. The Mughal Empire was losing its influence, while the EIC gained political power and influence after the Battle of Plassey (1757), Battle of Buxar (1764) and the Treaty of Allahabad (1765), in which the Mughal Emperor formally acknowledged British dominance in the region by granting EIC the diwani, or the right to collect revenue, from Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. The Supreme Court was founded in Calcutta in 1774. The EIC ceased to be simply a trading company and transformed into a powerful imperial agency with an army of its own, exercising control over vast territories with millions of people. As Thomas B. Macaulay said during a speech in the House of Commons on 10 July 1833: It is the strangest of all governments; but it is designed for the strangest of all empires . Elsewhere, the close of the eighteen ....
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The first newspaper printed in Asia was Hicky’s Bengal Gazette or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser. It was founded in 1780 by James Augustus Hicky, an eccentric and intrepid Irishman. Published as a weekly from Calcutta, then capital of British India, it retailed for one rupee, quite a large sum in those days. Its motto, “Open to all parties, but influenced by none,” might still be the watchword of good journalism. Unfortunately, its founder-editor-publisher fell foul with the authorities. He was a strong critic of Warren Hastings, then Governor-General. Hicky faced multiple lawsuits, was imprisoned, and went bankrupt. His paper had to be closed down within two years of its founding. After Hicky’s, many other papers and journals were founded in India, but most proved shirt-lived. ....