Question

Bombay Samachar was started in _
A.1785
B.1795
C.1822
D.1857

Answer 1

Hint: The Bombay Samachar is the oldest newspaper continuously published in Asia. It was composed of three thin sheets of quarto. In all, 10 inches by 8 inches, with an additional half sheet containing 14 pages of printed matter.

Complete answer: On the first of July 1822, Bombay Samachar was first published and a short summary of the contents of this first issue will provide an idea of what an Indian journal was in those days. The first sheet consists of ads, two of which are about missing items, and one about the selling of such properties, both of which relate to Parsis. Then there are four columns of brief paragraphs on the appointments and amendments made by the Government and the Court, and on the powers of attorney taken from the court; on the arrival and departure from Mumbai of ships and Europeans; and on the list of European deaths; and on the loading of ships in the harbour.
Six columns of news taken from the Indian Gazette and the Calcutta Chronicle are given to Calcutta (now Kolkata); one column of news from the Government Gazette of that city to Madras (now Chennai); two columns of news from London, while a short paragraph of ten lines is devoted to news from Canton in China, given the price of opium.

Hence,The right answer is Option C.

Note: A weekly until 1832, a bi-weekly until 1855 and a daily since then it continued to expand and became one of the leading newspapers in Western India, well-read both in India and abroad by a wide segment of Gujarati-speaking people. In Western India, the creator, a Parsi scholar and priest by the name of Fardoonji Murazban, was a pioneer not only of journalism but of all printed literature in Gujarati.