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Who started the first english newspaper in india?

Who started the first english newspaper in india?A. Raja Rammohan Roy
B. James Augustus Hicky
C. Maulana Zafar Ali Khan
D. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Hickey’s Bengal Gazette was an English newspaper published from Kolkata (then Calcutta), India. It was the first major newspaper in India, started in 1780. It was published for two years. Founded by James Augustus Hicky, a highly eccentric Irishman who had previously spent two years in Jail for debt.