Founder of Newspaper and Journals in India: Here you will get the information regarding Famous Indian news papers and journals and their founder’s names.
India’s first news paper was Bengal Gazette (Year-1780). Bengal Gazette was founded by J.K.Hikki. Many freedom fighters, social reformers and politicians has started news papers, weeklies and magazines to spread their patriotic feelings into the people of India. These news papers had a great impact on the contemporary people and on their living conditions. Here is the list:
Founder of Newspaper and Journals in India
| Newspaper/Journal Name | Founder |
| Bengal Gazette(1780)(India’s First Newspaper) | J.K.Hikki |
| Kesari | B.G.Tilak |
| Maharatta | B.G.Tilak |
| Sudharak | G.K.Gokhale |
| Amrita Bazar Patrika | Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh |
| Vande Mataram | Aurobindo Ghosh |
| Native Opinion | V.N. Mandalik |
| Kavivachan Sudha | Bhartendu Harishchandra |
| Rast Goftar(first newspaper in Gujrati) | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| New India(Weekly) | Bipin Chandra Pal |
| Statesman | Robert Knight |
| Hindu | Vir Raghavacharya and G.S. Aiyar |
| Sandhya | B.B. Upadhyaya |
| Vichar Lahiri | Krishnashastri Chiplunkar |
| Hindu Patriot | Girish Chandra Ghosh(later Harish Chandra Mukherji) |
| Som Prakesh | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar |
| Yugantar | Bhupendranath Data and Barinder Kumar Ghosh |
| Bombay Chronicle | Firoze Shah Mehta |
| Hindustan | M.M. Malviya |
| Mooknayak | B.R. Ambedkar |
| Comrade | Mohammad Ali |
| Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq | Sir Syyed Ahmed Khan |
| Al-Hilal | Abul Kalam Azad |
| Al-Balagh | Abul Kalam Azad |
| Independent | Motilal Nehru |
| Punjabi | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| New India(Daily) | Annie Besant |
| Commonweal | Annie Besant |
| Pratap | Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi |
| Essays in Indian Economics | M.G. Ranade |
| Samvad Kaumudi (Bengali) | Ram Mohan Roy |
| Mirat-ul-Akbhar | Ram Mohan Roy(first Persian Newspaper) |
| Indian Mirror | Devendra Nath Tagore |
| Nav Jeevan | M.K Ghandhi |
| Young India | M.K Ghandhi |
| Harijan | M.K Ghandhi |
| Prabudha Bharat | Swami Vivekananda |
| Udbodhana | Swami Vivekananda |
| Indian Socialist | Shyamji Krishna Verma |
| Talwar(in Berlin) | Birendra Nath Chattopadhyaya |
| Free Hindustan(in Vancouver) | Tarak Nath Das |
| Hindustan Times | K.M. Pannikar |
| Kranti | Mirajkar, Joglekar, Ghate |
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