N.K. Chauhan 
Our freedom fighters wrote many books to propagate their ideologies and motivate people to participate in the freedom struggle.
Hicky's Bengal Gazette was the first English-language newspaper published on the Indian subcontinent.
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Censorship of Press Act, 1799 was enacted by the Lord Wellesley, anticipating French invasion of India.It imposed almost wartime press restrictions including pre-censorship which was later relaxed by the Lord hasting.
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The Vernacular Press Act, 1978 was proposed by Lytton, then Viceroy of India, in 1878.It allowed the government to censor vernacular presses.
It was repealed in 1881 by Lytton's successor as viceroy, Lord Ripon.
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Here is a list of popular Books, Magazine and Newspapers written by Indian freedom fighters.| Name | Books, Magazine, Newspapers |
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| Mahatma Gandhi | Young India (Home Rule Party), Harijan, Navjivan, Hind Swarajya (1909), Gokhale: My Political Guru, My Experiments With Truth (Gujarati) |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Kesri, The Maratha, Gita Rahasya, The Arctic Home in Vedas |
| Jawahar Lal Nehru | Discovery of India (In Ahmednagar Jail), Glimpses of World History, Meri Kahani, National, Qaumi Awaz |
| Maulana Abdul Kalam Aazad | Al Hilal, India Wins Freedom, Gubare Khatir |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | Unhappy India, biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Shivaji and Shrikrishna, The Story of My Deportation |
| Dr. Rajendra Prasad | India Divided |
| Ram Manohar Lohia | Guilty Men of India's Partition, Wheel of History |
| J.P. Narayan | Towards struggle, Prison Diary |
| E. M. Forster | A Passage to India |
| Bipan Chandra | Indian National Movement: The Long Term Dynamics |
| B R Ambedkar | Bahishkrut Bharat, Mook Nayak, Annihilation of Caste |
| Lala Hardayal | Hints For Self Culture |
| Surendra Nath Banarji | Bangali, A Nation In Making |
| Veer Savarkar | War Of Indian Independence |
| Sri Aurobindo | Foundations of Indian Culture |
| Ravindra Nath Tagore | Geetanjali (Nobel Prize Winner Book), Home and The World, Gora, Hungry Stones, Chandalika, Visarjan |
| Madan Mohan Malviya | Abhyuday, Hindustan, Leader |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhle | Nation, Sudharak |
| C.V. Raman Pillai. | Swadesh Vahini |
| Keshav Chandra Sen | Indian Mirror (Calcutta-1880), Vaam Bodhini |
| Dinbandhu Mitra | Neel Darpan |
| Arvind Ghosh | Karmyogi, Yugantar, Savitri, Life Divine, Essays On Gita, Bande Matram |
| Muhammad Iqbal | Tarane Hind, Baange Dara |
| Annie Besant | Commonweal, New India |
| Subhash Chandra Bose | Indian Struggle |
| Paranjape | Kaal |
| Muhammad Ali | Comred, Hamdard |
| Raja Ram Mohan Roy | Samvad Kaumudi, Miratul Akhbar |
| Ishwarchadra Vidyasagar | Som Prakash |
| Motilal Nehru | Independent |
| Dada Bhai Naurauji | Rust Guftgur, Poverty And Un British Rule In India (1901), Voice of India |
| Shishir Kumar Ghosh | Amrit Bazar Patrika |
| Tarak Nath Das | Free Hindustan |
| Shachindra Sanyal | The Revolutionary, Bandi Jeevan |
| Dayanand Sarswati | Satyarth Darpan |
| Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya | History Of Congress |
| Syed Ahmad Khan | Tehzeeb-ul-Akhlaq |
| Bhagat Singh | Introduction to Dreamland, Why I Am an Atheist |
| Hugh Toye | The Springing Tiger |
| Chittaranjan Das | India For Indians |
| Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | Anand Math (Bible of Bengali patriotism), Devi Chaudharani, Durgeshnandini |
| Bhartendu Harishchandra | Bharat Durdasha |
| Shivanand | Divine Life |
| Nayantara Sahgal | A Voice Of Freedom |
| Deenbandhu Mitra | Neel Darpan |
| Tarak nath Das | Free India (America) |
| Pherozeshah Mehta | Bombay Chronicle |
| Gulam Hussain | Inqilab |
| Sachchidananda Sinha | Searchlight |
| Rafiq Zakaria | The Man who Divided India |
| Sarojini Naidu | The Broken Wing |
| Valentine Chirol | Indian Unrest |
The 'Drain Theory' was first developed by Dadabhai Naoroji in a series of speeches and writings subsequently published in 1901.
In 1826 , India's first Hindi newspaper, Udant Martand (The Rising Sun), was published from Kolkata.
Ghadar journal (Weekly) was published in "Urdu" in 1913. After this, it was published in English, Punjabi, Marathi and Pushtu also.
The Indian Opinion was an important newspaper established in 1903 in Durban, South Africa, by Mahatma Gandhi and M. H. Nazar(First Editor). The newspaper was published in Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil and English.
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The Hindoo Patriot was an English weekly published from Calcutta in the later half of the nineteenth century in Bengal.The Hindoo Patriot, under the able editorship of Harish Chandra Mukherjee became the mouthpiece of protest against imperial injustices.
It was first newspaper published by the Indians in the English language.
| (Newspaper) | (Language) |
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| Bharat Mitra | Hindi |
| Rashtramata | Marathi |
| Prajamitra | Gujarati |
| Harijan | Poona |
| Nayak | Bengali |
