Freedom of the Press? 'Hicky's Bengal Gazette', India's first printed newspaper

Fun fact from 'Eaten by a Fish'

The printing press was introduced into India in 1556. But it was not until 1780 that the first printed newspaper appeared in India. This was Hicky’s Bengal Gazette, or The Original Calcutta General Advertiser, edited and published by James Augustus Hicky from Calcutta.

Hicky described his paper as “A Weekly Political and Commercial Paper, Open to all Par…