India Newspapers

Online Resources

 * 1780-1782 Hicky’s Bengal Gazette at FIBIS - index (names extracted from the publication)
 * 1792-1819 Madras Courier at FIBIS - index (names extracted from the publication)
 * 1793-1798 Asiatic Mirror and Commercial Advertiser at FIBIS - index (names transcribed from four editions of the two publications)
 * 1793 Calcutta Newpapers 1793 at FIBIS - index (names extracted from the publication)
 * 1800-1899 Home News for India, China and the Colonies at Findmypast - index & images ($)
 * 1823-1846 The London Gazette at FIBIS - index (names extracted from the publication)
 * 1847-1896 Home News for India, China and the Colonies at British Newspaper Archive — index and images ($)
 * 1857 Stirling Observer 1857 at FIBIS - index (names extracted from the publication)
 * 1861-1865, 1867-1888 Times of India at Findmypast - index & images ($)
 * 1890-1912 Suffolk Regimental Gazette at FIBIS - index (names extracted from the publication)
 * 1895 The Bangalore Spectator, Tuesday 29 January 1895 at FIBIS - index (names extracted from the publication)

Vital Records in Newspapers

 * 1731-1854 Gentlemans Magazine Marriage and death announcements at FIBIS - index
 * 1782-1826 The European Magazine & London Review Births, marriages, and deaths at FIBIS - index (names extracted from the publication)
 * 1798-1815 Asiatic Annual Register Births, marriages, and deaths at FIBIS - index
 * 1821 Calcutta Annual Register Births, marriages, and deaths at FIBIS - index
 * 1838-1839 Parbury's Oriental Herald & Colonial Intelligencer Births, marriages, and deaths at FIBIS - index (includes Bombay, Madras, Home, and Overseas)
 * 1838-1859 Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce Births, marriages, and deaths at FIBIS - index
 * 1843, 1889 Madras Mail Births, marriages, and deaths at FIBIS - index
 * 1843-1891 Allens Indian Mail Births, marriages, and deaths at FIBIS - index
 * 1847 Benares Recorder Birth, marriage, and death announcements at FIBIS - index
 * 1877-1930 The Times of India Births, marriages, and deaths at FIBIS - index

Background
Mass media in India is that part of the Indian media that aims to reach a wide audience. Besides the news media, radio, television, and the internet are playing an increasing role.

Compared with many other developing countries, the Indian press is relatively unfettered, except for obstacles in the way of setting up media companies, which were part of the pre-1990 license raj. In 2001, India had 45,974 newspapers, including 5364 daily newspapers published in over 100 languages.

The largest number of newspapers were published in Hindi (20,589), followed by English (7,596), Marathi (2,943), Urdu (2,906), Bengali (2,741), Gujarati (2,215), Tamil (2,119), Kannada (1,816), Malayalam(1,505) and Telugu (1,289). The Hindi daily press has a circulation of over 23 million copies, followed by English with over 8 million copies.

There are several major publishing groups in India, the most prominent among them being the Times of India Group, the Indian Express Group, the Hindustan Times Group, The Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika Group, the Eenadu Group, the Malayala Manorama Group,the Mathrubhumi group, the Sahara group, the Bhaskar group, and the Dainik Jagran group.

India has more than forty domestic news agencies. The Express News Service, the Press Trust of India, and the United News of India are among the major news agencies.

In India, The Times of India is the largest English newspaper in circulation, with 2.14 million copies daily. According to the 2006 National Readership Study, the Dainik Jagran is the most-read, local-language (Hindi) newspaper, with 21.2 million readers.