The Bengal Gazetti was a historic Bengali weekly newspaper published in either 1816 or 1818, and is one of the oldest publications in India. It is believed to the first

Bengali language Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. ...

newspaper. The paper was edited by Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya, a former employee of

Serampore Mission Press The Serampore Mission Press was a book and newspaper publisher that operated in Serampore, Danish India, from 1800 to 1837. The Press was founded by the British Baptist missionaries William Carey, William Ward, and Joshua Marshman, collectively ...

. The newspaper was short lived due to paper being considered an expensive commodity.

History

The ''Bengal Gazetti'' was published in either May 1816 or 1818. The publisher of the magazine was Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya and was supported by Harachandra Roy. It continued publishing for around one year. No copies of the paper remain. It is believed to be the first Bengali language newspaper, but there are conflicting reports on when it started publication, and there is some controversy over whether the ''Gazetti'' or the ''

Samachar Darpan ''Samachar Darpan'' () was a Bengali weekly newspaper published by the Baptist Missionary Society and published on 23 May 1818 from the Baptist Mission Press at Serampore in the first half of the 19th century. It is considered to be the first Ind ...

'', published by

, came first. The ''Bengal Gazetti'' was the first newspaper in India controlled entirely by natives.

References

{{reflist Defunct Bengali-language newspapers published in India Publications established in 1816