The India Gazette, or Calcutta Public Advertiser, published from Calcutta, was first brought out on this day.

It was the second newspaper printed in India, after Hicky’s Bengal Gazette.

James Augustus Hicky, founder-editor of Hicky’s Bengal Gazette, had made the newspaper a vehicle of severe and constant criticism of the British government and of Governor-General Warren Hastings. The India Gazette, founded by two British East India Company employees, was meant to support government positions and counter Hicky’s voice, whose slogan was: “Open to all Parties, but influenced by None.”

On the day The India Gazette was published, Hicky changed the name of his paper from Hicky’s Bengal Gazette; or, Calcutta General Advertiser, to Hicky’s Bengal Gazette; or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser.

Hicky was no pushover.

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