Origin and development of Hindi journalism

Prabhat Kishore
Contd from previous issue
In 1846, “Indian Sun” was published from Kolkatain five languages   like “Bengal Herald” and “Bangdoot”. It had ten pages and each page had five columns. The name of its Hindi editionwas “Martand”.
“Sudhavarshan” was the first Hindi daily, which came out in the year 1854 from Bada Bazar in Kolkata. Originally it was a bilingual paper, with the first two pages in Hindi and the remaining two pages in Bengali. Its editor was Shyam Sundar Sen.
The  “Pyame Azadi” was taken out from Delhi in 1857 by Shri Ajimullah Khan, the leader of the freedom movement. Earlier it used to come out in Urdu, but soon it started coming in Hindi also.
The idea was to bring out its edition from Jhansi as well. The first famous Indian national anthem of 1857 was published in this paper, the opening lines of which were-
(To be contd)