<P> Hicky 's Bengal Gazette or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser was an English language weekly newspaper published in Kolkata ( then Calcutta ) , the capital of British India . It was the first newspaper printed in Asia , and was published for two years , before the East India Company seized the newspaper 's types and printing press . Founded by James Augustus Hicky , a highly eccentric Irishman who had previously spent two years in jail for debt , the newspaper was a strong critic of the administration of the Governor General Warren Hastings . The newspaper was important for its provocative journalism well before its time and its fight for free expression in India . </P>
<P> Hicky 's Bengal Gazette or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser was an English language weekly newspaper published in Kolkata ( then Calcutta ) , the capital of British India . It was the first newspaper printed in Asia , and was published for two years , before the East India Company seized the newspaper 's types and printing press . Founded by James Augustus Hicky , a highly eccentric Irishman who had previously spent two years in jail for debt , the newspaper was a strong critic of the administration of the Governor General Warren Hastings . The newspaper was important for its provocative journalism well before its time and its fight for free expression in India . </P>
who started the first english newspaper in india
who started the first english newspaper in india
James Augustus Hicky
James Augustus Hicky