Multiple choice general knowledge culture

Name the first ever published Indian journal.

  1. Hick's Bengal Gazette

  2. Gujarat Samachar

  3. National Herald

  4. None of these
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Hicky's Bengal Gazette, published by James Augustus Hicky in 1780, was India's first newspaper and journal. It was a weekly English publication that began in Calcutta and marked the beginning of journalism in India. Gujarat Samachar (1822) came much later, while National Herald (founded by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1938) is a 20th century publication.

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