Bombay Samachar
Topic: Print Culture and the Modern World · NCERT: Class 10, Ch 5 "Print Culture and the Modern World"
Meaning
Bombay Samachar is a Gujarati newspaper started in Bombay in 1822 by Fardunjee Marzban. It began as a weekly that mainly carried commercial news for traders. It is the oldest newspaper in Asia that is still being published. It shows that Indian-language newspapers grew in Bombay at the same time as in Bengal.
Example
In 1822, the same year Bombay Samachar began in Gujarati, two Persian newspapers also appeared: Jam-i-Jahan Nama and Shamsul Akhbar.
Don't confuse with
- Bengal Gazette: James Augustus Hickey's English weekly of 1780 was the first newspaper in India. A different Bengal Gazette, started by Gangadhar Bhattacharya, was the first newspaper published by an Indian.
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