The Bengal Times a newspaper published from

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list o ...

. It was the second newspaper of its kind published in 1871. E. C. Kemp was the editor. ''The Bengal Times'' was a very influential newspaper in East Bengal. An 1875 review of the region by Scottish historian

William Wilson Hunter Sir William Wilson Hunter (15 July 18406 February 1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service. He is most known for ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' on which he started working in 1869, ...

stated: "The principal English journal is the ''Bengal Times'', lately called the ''Dacca News'', a weekly periodical with an estimated circulation of about 250. It represents the interests of the great landholders and indigo and tea planters".William Wilson Hunter,
A Statistical Account of Bengal, Volume 5
' (1875), p. 117. The paper was modern in format, type and in presenting news. The magazine, which was published every Wednesday and Saturday, used to be printed in four columns. It used to contain extracts from different magazines, letters from London and Paris, some articles, brief news from Dhaka and other areas. Occasionally, poems were also published

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