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Newspapers

Newspapers played a vital role in creating social awareness and insisted on the need to achieve
independence from the clutches of the British.
Newspapers of the Freedom Struggle Era.

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Rast Goftar Somprakash
Founder/Editor: Founder/Editor:
Dadabhai Naoroji and Ishwar Chandra
Kharshedji Cama Vidyasagar

It was an Anglo-Gujarati paper that was It was a Bengali weekly that started on 15
started in 1854. It championed social reform November 1858. It primarily indulged in
among the Parsis in Western India. political discussion and raised voice against
the Vernacular Press Act (1878).

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The Statesman Sambad Kaumudi
Founder/Editor: Founder/Editor:
Robert Knight Ram Mohan Roy

It is an English language daily newspaper It was a Bengali weekly newspaper which
founded in 1875 and is still in circulation. was a well-known pro-reformist journal that
This is one of the leading daily newspapers actively advocated for the abolition of the
of West Bengal. Sati Pratha.

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Sudharak The Leader
Founder/Editor: Founder/Editor:
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Madan Mohan Malviya

It was an Anglo-Marathi newspaper which During the British Raj, it was one of the most
was published from Pune, Maharashtra. It prominent English-language newspapers in
was founded in 1888. India. The newspaper was published from
Allahabad.

 Dainik Jagran is an Indian Hindi language newspaper.
 As of 2020, it was the leading newspaper in India by circulation. Quiz Time!Time!
Quiz
 It was launched in 1942 by Puran Chandra Gupta.
 It is owned by Jagran Prakash Limited and is listed on Bombay Which newspaper do you
Stock Exchange (BSE). read? ________________ .

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