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    Hicky's Bengal Gazette or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser was an English-language weekly newspaper published in Kolkata (then Calcutta), the capital...
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  • James Augustus Hicky was an Irishman who launched the first printed newspaper in India, Hicky's Bengal Gazette. Hicky was born in Ireland around the year...
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    India's first newspaper Hicky's Bengal Gazette. It was founded on 18 November 1780. Andrew, Otis (2018). Hicky's Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India's...
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  • Law.": 56  Hicky's distorted "Mr. Caninder" (as Hicky calls him in the May 1781 Hicky's Bengal Gazette) was primarily the bane of Hicky's life as a printer...
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    James Augustus Hicky published Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first newspaper in India. The size of that four-page newspaper was 12"x8". Hicky accused the members...
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    the first newspaper The Bengal Gazette was launched in 1780 by James Augustus Hicky, which later became known as Hicky's Gazette. Prior to this, the British...
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  • India was Hicky's Bengal Gazette, started in 1780 under the British Raj by James Augustus Hicky. Other newspapers such as The India Gazette, The Calcutta...
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  • of Bengal. He wrote Hicky's Bengal Gazette: the Untold Story of India's First Newspaper which details the story of James Augustus Hicky and Hicky's Bengal...
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    newspapers were published in British Bengal since the 18th century. Many were in English. Hicky's Bengal Gazette was a major weekly publication. The first...
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  • Governor-General of Presidency of Fort William, or Governor-General of Bengal to be appointed by the Court of Directors of the East India Company (EIC)...
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    Calcutta. In 1781, he accused James Augustus Hicky, the editor and publisher of Hicky's Bengal Gazette of libel and won the trial. He was the author...
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    the first newsprint from this region, Hicky's Bengal Gazette, was published by an Irishman, James Augustus Hicky. He used it as a means to criticize the...
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  • problem for the interests of the company. The first newspaper, Hicky's Bengal Gazette, was banned in 1782 because of criticisms of the East India Company...
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    played by white actors in blackface. However, such reports come from Hicky's Bengal Gazette, which could have posited this satirically to mock Soubise's status...
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  • it is quoted in our style book". The first newspaper of India, Hicky's Bengal Gazette, was published on 29 January 1780. This first effort at journalism...
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  • Hicky's Bengal Gazette, had already been established and several other newspapers were also coming into play. Six years after Hicky's Bengal Gazette was...
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    General Advertiser, the first newspaper of India (also known as the Hicky's Bengal Gazette), started in January 1780, and the first Hindi daily, Samachar Sudha...
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    produced in locally established paper mills, appeared, from the Hicky's Bengal Gazette, to by the 1940s, a hundred thousand tonnes of paper was being produced...
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  • and preparing to take the Field for a very active Campaign…" — Hicky's Bengal Gazette (December 16, 1780). The history of CC&FC dates back to 1792, when...
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    1777, November Calcutta British India James Augustus Hicky Publisher of Hicky's Bengal Gazette 1778, January Calcutta British India Robert William Kiernander...
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    Manipur (princely state) (category Bengal Presidency)
    subordinated to the Chief Commissioner of Assam (Lieutenant Governor of East Bengal and Assam during 1905–1912)[verification needed] 1835–1844 George Gordon...
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  • Group, bowling and mini-golf company based in the United Kingdom Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first newspaper printed in India Horácio Bento de Gouveia,...
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    Retrieved 2014-02-13. "7 November 1665". London Gazette (1): 1. "5 February 1666". London Gazette (24): 1. Bremen University, Archive. "Freitags-Zeitung"...
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  • Jim Hickey (disambiguation) James Augustus Hicky (died 1802), Irishman who launched Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first newspaper in India, in 1780 This...
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  • Gurusaday Dutt Road (category West Bengal articles missing geocoordinate data)
    ground in Kolkata. Recent evidence in the form of an article in Hicky's Bengal Gazette, suggests the club existed in 1780 – which would make it the oldest...
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  • London, 1808, pp. 220-226.[2] Lloyd's List, 29 September 1780; Hicky's Bengal Gazette, 5 May 1781. Hosea Ballou Morse, The Chronicles of the East India...
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  • Echoes from Belvedere: Home of National Library, Kolkata (2004) Hicky and his Gazette (2001) The Mango in Indian Life and Culture (1995) Calcutta Tercentenary...
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  • was circulated in 1780 under the editorship of James Augustus Hicky, named Bengal Gazette. On May 30, 1826 Udant Martand (The Rising Sun), the first Hindi-language...
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