Journalist

and Publisher

There are some letters and manuscripts regarding some journalists in the Private Papers held at the British Library. References might also be found in Political and Secret Department Records and Public and Judicial Department Records as well as many other sources useful for researching non-official inhabitants such as Thackers Directories, East India Registers and bonds.

FIBIS resources

• "From Soldier to Newspaperman: The Varied Experiences of Joachim Hayward Stocqueler in Bombay and Calcutta from 1819 to 1843" by Audrey T Carpenter FIBIS Journal Number 33 (Spring 2015) pages 3-15.
• "The Life of George Parbury, associate of Allen, Thacker and Spink" by Dr John Carpenter FIBIS Journal Number 34 (Autumn 2015) pages 3-17.

For details of how to access these articles, see FIBIS Journals.

External Links

• Journalism and Politics in Colonial India by Dr. Usha Rani Bansal, Professor Department of History, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi indoindians.com
• Lang, John (1816–1864) by John Earnshaw. Australian Dictionary of Biography. An Australian, Lang came to India in 1842, where he initially practiced as a barrister at the Calcutta Bar, until he founded the Mofussilite, c 1846, which became one of the most important newspapers in India. He died in Mussoorie in 1864.

"The story of John Lang" by Venkat Ananth, November 18 2014. livemint.com. John Lang was considered among the earliest champions of a free press in India.

See Historical books online, below for a series of sketches by Lang of British social life in India.

• Memories of The Madras Mail, established 1868. Also includes details of earlier publications. 11 June 2003 The Hindu
• End of a Chapter 
- The last British journalist to make India his home by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray July 21 , 2012 The Telegraph, Calcutta. Obituary of Philip Crosland 1918- 2012

Historical books online

• Tropical Sketches; Or, Reminiscences of an Indian Journalist by William Knighton 1855. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org
• Wanderings in India: and other sketches of life in Hindostan by John Lang 1859 Archive.org. Missing the one image. British Library Digital Collection. The one image is rotatable. Most of the chapters first appeared in Charles Dickens’s magazine, Household Words. For information about the author, see External links above.
• Yesterday and To-day in India by Sydney Laman Blanchard 1867 Archive.org. He was in India c 1854-1864. He was initially editor of the Bengal Hurkaru. Sidney Laman Blanchard (1825–1883) victorianresearch.org
• "The History of Journalism in India" by S C Sanial The Calcutta Review Volume 124 1907, July and October: I–Bengal pages 350-393 and I-Bengal–II pages 500-562. Archive.org.

Bengal III Volume 125, January 1908: Does not appear to be available online.

I Bengal IV page 195, Vol 125 April 1908

I Bengal V page 351, Vol 127 July 1908

I Bengal VI page 485, Vol 127 October 1908

II Bombay I page 429, Vol 129 Oct 1909

VIII Bombay II page 80, Vol 130 January 1910.

IX Bombay III page 264, Volume 130 April 1910.

Part X, Vol.131, July 1910. Does not appear to be available online

XI I- "Manuscript Newspapers" page 1 Vol 132 January 1911.

XII "Vernacular Press of Bengal" page 141, Vol 132 April 1911

• Journalism In India by Pat Lovett 1929 Archive.org
• The Indian Press from Anglo Indian Studies by S M Mitra 1913 Archive.org
• The Indian Literary Year-book and Author's Who is Who for 1918, with Appendices relating to relevant legislation. Published by Mitra. Archive.org
• Indian chapters commencing with “Flight to India” [in 1930] page 547The Way of a Transgressor by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. 2nd file Archive.org. The India chapters continue to page 591. Negley Farson Wikipedia. The author was then an American foreign correspondent, one of the most renowned of his day.
• Monsoon Morning by Ian Stephens 1966. A picture of India in 1942-44 by the editor of The Statesman, mainly depicting events seen from Calcutta. Archive.org Lending Library.
• Negotiating India in the nineteenth-century media edited by David Finkelstein and Douglas M Peers 2000. Archive.org Lending Library.