- The printing press was inotroduced in the country by the Portuguese.
- The English East India Company established a printing press in Bangalore in 1684.
- In May 1799, the first Press regulations were issued requiring newspaper to carry the names of the printer, the editor and the proprietor.
- James Buckingham and Raja Rammohan Roy were great fighters for freedom of the Press at this period.
- Vernacular Press Act 1878, Newspaper Act 1908, Indian Press Act 1910 and Indian Press Act 1931 were passed during the British rule.
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy is known as the Pioneer of Journalism.
Paper/Journal Founder/Editor
Bengal Gazette James Augustus Hicky
Mirat-ul-Akbar Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1st newspaper in Persian)
Calcutta Journal James Silk Buckingham
Samvad-Kaumudi Raja Ram Mohan Ray
Rast Goftar Dadabhai Naoroji
Hindi Patriot Girishchandra Ghosh
Som Prakasha Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Indian Mirror Devendranath Tagore
Kesari BG Tilak
Pratap Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
Al-Hilal Abul Kalam Azad
Young India Gandhiji
Commonweal Annie Besant
Bande Mataram Bhikaji Madam Cama
Amrit Bazar Patrika Girishchandra Ghosh (taken over by S.N. Banerjea in 1879)
Calcutta Statesman Robert Knight
Yugantar Barindranath Ghosh and Bhupendra Kumar Dutta
Sandhya Brahmabandhab Upadhayay
Indian Sociologist Shyamji Krishna Varma
Free Hindustan Taraknath Das
Bombay Chronicle Pher ozeshah Meht a and BG Horniman
The Milap (Urdu) MK Chand
Leader Madan Mohan Malaviya
Bahiskrit Bharat (Marathi) BR Ambedkar
Kudi Arasu (Tamil) EV Ramaswamy Naicker
Kranti SS Mirajkar, KN Joglekar and SV Ghate
Bandi Jivan Sachindranath Sanyal
National Herald Jawaharlal Nehru
Important Books of Indian Freedom Struggle Era
Book Author
The Causes of the Indian Revolt Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Gulamgiri Jyotiba Phule
To All Fighters, Why Socialism JP Narayan
Pakhtoon Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Problem of the Far East Lord Curzon
My Indian Years: 1910-1916 Lord Hardinge II
Economic History of India R.C. Dutt
Pather Panchali Bibhutibhushan Banerji
The Spirit of Islam Syed Ameer Ali
Precepts of Jesus Raja Ram Mohan Roy
A Gift of Monotheists Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Satyarth Prakash Swami Dayanand
Anand Math Bankim C. Chatterji
Devi Chaudharani Bankim C. Chatterji
Sitaram Bankim C. Chatterji
The Indian Struggle SC Bose
Poverty and Un-British Rule Dadabhai Naoroji in India
Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore
India for Indian Chittaranjan Das
India Wins Freedom Maulana Abul Kalam Ajad
A Nation in the Making S.N. Banerji
Unhappy India Lala Lajpat Rai
The Indian War of V.D. Savarkar
Independence
India Divided Rajendra Prasad
The Discovery of India J.L. Nehru
Neel Darpan Dinbandhu Mitra
Hind Swaraj M.K. Gandhi
What Congress and B.R. Ambedkar
Gandhi Have Done to
the Untouchables
The IndianWar of V.D. Savarkar
Independence, 1857