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Who started the first English Newspaper in India?

  1. A
    Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  2. B
    Raja Rammohan Roy
  3. C
    J.A. Hickey
  4. D
    Lord William Bentinck

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James Augustus Hicky (J.A. Hicky) started India's very first printed English weekly newspaper titled Hicky's Bengal Gazette (or The Calcutta General Advertiser) in the year 1780.

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Who started the first English Newspaper in India?
A
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B
Raja Rammohan Roy
C
J.A. Hickey
D
Lord William Bentinck

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