Development of Press• Portugese were the first to bring Printing Press to India

• James Augustus Hickey started the first Newspaper in India, The Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser

• Early Regulations– Censorship of Press act, 1799– Licensing Regulations Act, 1823– Press Act or Metcalfe Act 1835 (Liberator of Indian Press)– Licensing Act 1857– Registration Act 1867– Vernacular Press Act 1878

• Important Newspapers and Books