James Augustus Hickey in 1780 started The Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser, the first newspaper in India, which was seized in 1872 because of its outspoken criticism of the Government.
Later more newspapers/journals came up—The Bengal Journal, The Calcutta Chronicle, The Madras Courier, The Bombay Herald. The Company’s officers were worried that these newspapers might reach London and expose their misdeeds. Thus they saw the need for curbs on the press.
➢ Early Regulation
➢ Struggle by Early Nationalists to Secure Press Freedom
Designed to better control’ the vernacular press and effectively punish and repress seditious writing.
➢ The provisions of the Act included the following.
➢ Newspaper (Incitement to Offences) Act, 1908
➢ Indian Press Act, 1910
➢ During and After the First World War
➢ During the Second World War
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