The Role of Newspapers in the Indian Struggle for Freedom

Indian Freedom Struggle is an important part of every exam syllabus. In Staff Selection Commission Combined Graduate Level exam it has the same relevance. Following we are presenting an important list of Newspapers with their editors. We also described their role in the Indian Freedom Struggle. It is an important topic in the General Study Section. 

The press in India was established by the Portuguese. The first book was printed in India in 1557 AD by the clergy of Goa. The modern Indian press began with the publication of a newspaper by William Bolts in 1766 AD. The first newspaper was published by James Augustus Hickey in 1780 AD.
The first newspaper published in English by an Indian was the Bengal Gazette of Gangadhar Bhattacharyya. In the history of journalism, he made Wokingham a reflection of the people. Raja Ram Mohan Roy started publishing newspapers of progressive national nature.
Newspapers infused new energy into the Indian freedom struggle. Through this, the intellectuals of the society started keeping the evils of the British and their objectives in front of the public. Dada Bhai Naoroji, Rajani Palme dutt, Romesh Chunder Dutt etc. people put the economic objectives of the British in front of the Indians. As a result, Indians started opposing British policies.

Following we are presenting a list of Important Newspapers with their editors.

Newspaper	Editor	Language	Place
Bengal Gazette	James Augustus Hicky	English	Calcutta
Samachar Darpan	Marshman	Bengali	Calcutta
Digdarshan	Marshman	Bengali	Calcutta
Sambad Kaumudi	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	Bengali	Calcutta
Miratul Akhbar	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	Persian	Calcutta
Bombay Samachar	Fardunjee	Gujarati	Mumbai
Hindustan Times	K M Panikkar	English	Mumbai
Satyaprakash	Karsandas Mulji	Gujarati	Ahmedabad
Bangdutt	Dwarkanath Tagore	Bengali	Calcutta
Jaame Jamshed	P M Motibala	Persian	Mumbai
Rast Goftar	Dada Bhai Naoroji	Gujarati	Mumbai
Hindu Patriot	Girish Chandra Ghosh, Harishchandra Mukherjee	English	Calcutta
Som Prakash	Iswarchandra Vidyasagar	Bengali	Calcutta
Indian Mirror	Devendra Nath Tagore Manmohan Ghosh	English	Calcutta
Indu Prakash	M G Ranade	Marathi	Mumbai
Native Opinion	V N Mandlik	English	Mumbai
Kavi Vachan Sudha	Bhartendu Harishchandra	Hindi	Varanasi
Amrit Bazar Patrika	Motilal Ghosh Shishir Ghosh	Bengali	Calcutta
Hindi Pradeep	Balkrishan Bhatt	Hindi	Varanasi
Tribune	Dayal Singh Majithiya	English	Lahore
Statesman	Robert Night	English	Calcutta
Hindu	V Raghavachari	English	Chennai
Bengali	S N Banerji	English	Calcutta
Maratha	Agarkar	English	Mumbai
Kesari	Kelkar	Marathi	Mumbai
India	Dada Bhai Naoroji	English	Mumbai
Hindustan Standard	Sachidananda Sinha	English	Mumbai
Bharat Mitra	Balmukund Gupt	Hindi	Calcutta
Udant Martand	Jugal Kishore Shukla	Hindi	Kanpur
Malwa Akhbar	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	Hindi	Indore
Hindostan	Madan Mohan Malviya Pratapnarayan Mishra	Hindi	Indore
Mumbai Darpan	Baal Shastri	Marathi	Mumbai
Abhay	Madan Mohan Malviya	Hindi	Allahabad
Pratap	Ganesh Shankar	Hindi	Kanpur
Hindi Kesari	Ganga Prasad Gupt	Hindi	Kashi
Aaj	Shiv Prasad Gupta	Hindi	Varanasi
Indian Review	G A Natesan	Hindi	Jawalapur
Indian Opinion	Mahatma Gandhi	English	South Africa
Indian Sociologist	Shyamji Krishnaverma	English	London
Yugantar	Bhupendra Dutt barindra Ghosh	Bengali	Calcutta
Modern Review	Ramananda Chatterjee	English	Calcutta
Vande Mataram	Shyam Ji Verma	English	Paris
Al Hilal	Abul Kalam Azad	Urdu	Calcutta
Bombay Chronicle	Firoj Shah Mehta	English	Mumbai
Gadar	Lala Hardayal	English	San Francisco
Common Wheel	Annie Besant	English	Mumbai
New India	Annie Besant	English	Mumbai
Independent	Motilal Nehru	English	Allahabad
Navjeevan	Mahatma Gandhi	Gujarati	Ahmedabad
Young India	Mahatma Gandhi	English	Ahmedabad
Harijan	Mahatma Gandhi	Hindi	Pune