Samachar Darpan
Topic: Print Culture and the Modern World · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
Samachar Darpan was a Bengali weekly newspaper started in 1818. It was printed at Serampore, near Calcutta, by Baptist missionaries and edited by John Clark Marshman. It was one of the earliest newspapers in an Indian language. It carried news as well as discussion of social questions.
Example
Samachar Darpan was printed at the Serampore Mission Press, set up in 1800. It appeared a few years before Rammohun Roy started his Bengali paper Sambad Kaumudi in 1821.
Don't confuse with
- Sambad Kaumudi (1821): a Bengali paper run by the reformer Rammohun Roy, an Indian, and not by missionaries.
- Samachar Chandrika: a Bengali paper of the Hindu orthodoxy, started to oppose Rammohun Roy's reform ideas.
Related concepts
- Printing press in Goa
- James Augustus Hicky
- Hicky's Bengal Gazette
- Serampore Mission Press
- Udant Martand