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James Augustus Hicky
Printer of Hicky's Bengal Gazette
In office
29 January 1780 – 23 March 1782
Personal details
Born1740
Ireland
DiedOctober 1802
Residence(s)Kolkata, India

James Augustus Hicky was an Irishman who launched the first printed newspaper in India, Hicky's Bengal Gazette.[1]

  1. ^ Andrew Otis, Hicky's Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India's First Newspaper Archived 21 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine, New Delhi: Westland Publications, 2018.

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