Bengal Journal

Bengal Journal
Owner(s)William Duane and Thomas Jones
Founded1785
LanguageEnglish language
HeadquartersCalcutta, British India

Bengal Journal was a newspaper founded in 1785 by William Duane and Thomas Jones.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

The Bengal Journal alarmed the East India Company authorities with its reporting of revolutionary events in France and caused outrage when it published an erroneouus report of Lord Cornwallis having been killed during a campaign against Tipu Sultan. Duane blamed a source he identified as an agent of the French Royalist French Government in Exile. Duane was sued for libel against the exile government, and the Governor-General of Bengal John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, shut down the paper.[7][8] Duane was subsequently dragged by his hair through the streets of Calcutta to a debtors' prison.[9] In 1794, after managing a second newspaper, The Indian World,[10] which reported on radical disaffection in the junior ranks of EIC army, Shore had Duane deported back to England.[11] The Bengal Journal gives us information about the life in the 19th century CE.

References

  1. ^ Nifor Guide to Indian Periodicals. National Information Service. 1955. p. 323. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  2. ^ S. K. Aggarwal (1 February 1988). Press at the crossroads in India. UDH Publishing House. p. 9. ISBN 978-81-85044-32-3. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  3. ^ Graham Shaw (1981). Printing in Calcutta to 1800: a description and checklist of printing in late 18th-century Calcutta. Bibliographical Society. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-19-721792-4. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  4. ^ "For India's docile media, a lesson in press freedom from 18th century Calcutta". Anu Kumar. Scroll. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Bengal Journal". History of the Magazine. 2 November 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  6. ^ "The English Press in Colonel India". S.M.A. Feroze. The Dawn. 22 April 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  7. ^ Phillips, Kim T., "William Duane, Philadelphia's Democratic Republicans, and Origins of Modern Politics," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 101 (1977), pp. 365–87.
  8. ^ Pasley, Jeffrey L (1 January 2001). ""The tyranny of printers": newspaper politics in the early American republic" (Document). University Press of Virginia.
  9. ^ Little, Nigel (2016). Transoceanic Radical: William Duane. New York: Routledge. pp. 117–118. ISBN 9781317314585. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  10. ^ Shaw, Graham (1981). Printing in Calcutta to 1800: A Description and Checklist of Printing in Late 18th-century Calcutta. Bibliographical Society. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-19-721792-4.
  11. ^ Clark, Allan C. (1906). "William Duane". Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. 9: (14–62) 20. ISSN 0897-9049. JSTOR 40066936.


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