What was the first vernacular newspaper in India?
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Samachar Darpan was a Bengali weekly newspaper published by the Baptist Missionary Society in the first half of the 19th century. It was published during the period of Lord Hastings (1813 to 1823). It is considered to be the first Indian-language newspaper.
The first vernacular newspaper in India was the Bengali weekly “Samachar Darpan.” It was published by the Serampore Mission Press in 1818. “Samachar Darpan” played a significant role in disseminating news and information in the Bengali language during the early 19th century.
But in 1818, Lord Hasting abolished this censorship of press act and after it, India’s first vernacular paper was published, ‘Samachar Darpan’. Samachar Darpan paper was published by the Baptist Missionary Society as a weekly newspaper.