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 Front page of the India Gazette (25 November 1780) | |
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bernard Messink and Peter Reed |
| Founded | 18 November 1780 |
| Headquarters | Kolkata, British India |
| Country | British India |
The India Gazette; or, Calcutta Public Advertiser was an English language weekly newspaper published in Calcutta (now Kolkata), then capital of British India. It was the second newspaper printed in India.
Founded by Bernard Messink and Peter Reed, two East India Company employees, the paper was a strong supporter of the administration of the Governor General Warren Hastings, and a rival to India's first newspaper Hicky's Bengal Gazette . [1] It was founded on 18 November 1780.
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Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree from Calcutta University. Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability. The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906, which was later known as Jadavpur University and the University College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914.
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James Augustus Hicky was an Irishman who launched the first printed newspaper in India, Hicky's Bengal Gazette.
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