Multiple choice

Which of the following was the first English newspaper to be published in the Indian subcontinent?

  1. The Madras Mail

  2. The Indian Social Reformer

  3. The Bengal Gazette

  4. The Times of India
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Explanation

The Bengal Gazette (founded by James Augustus Hicky in 1780) was the first English newspaper published in the Indian subcontinent. The Madras Mail began much later (1868), The Indian Social Reformer was a 19th-century publication, and The Times of India started in 1838, all after The Bengal Gazette.

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