![]() It is significant to mention that even though the first printing press set up in the third quarter of the 16th century, publication of a newspaper was delayed by more than two centuries. They were aided and abetted by servants of the Company who used these newspapers for furtherance of their personal rivalries and jealousies. ![]() The first newspapers were started by disgruntled ex-employees of the Company. No newspaper was published until 1780 because the Company’s establishments in India were a close preserve, and the Company’s servants by common consent wished to withhold the evils and malpractices arising from “private trading” in which all of them, almost without exception, illegally indulged. Under the rule of the East India Company, there was the possibility of interesting news and some enterprising journalists set up printing presses in India to expose the misdeeds of the Company. The press as we know it today was, however, brought to India in the wake of British rule. ![]() Printing press in india during british rule ![]()
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