Newspapers and journals online

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This page contains links to online editions of historical newspapers and periodicals that are of use to the British India family historian.

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Contents

Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine

The following volumes are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website.

  • Alexander's East India Magazine, and Colonial And Commercial Journal Volume 7, January-June 1834., Index computer page 6
  • Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine January 1835. Contents, computer page 14
  • Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine April 1835. Contents computer page 8
  • Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine Volume 13, January-June 1837. Contents, computer page 8


Allen's Indian Mail

Asiatic Annual Register

Asiatic Journal

See the separate list of editions of the Asiatic Journal.


Calcutta Annual Register

Calcutta Christian Observer

Calcutta Gazette

  • The Calcutta Gazette was one of the official newspapers of the Government of India and its provincial governments, where official information was ‘gazetted’. Available on the Digital Library of India website for the years 1846 and 1872 to post independence (broken series). These volumes may be read online, but the volumes are not searchable. Some volumes, 1846 and 1872- 1942 (broken series) are also available on the website "DSpace at West Bengal State Central Library" under the subject category Gazetteers as searchable pdf files.


Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register

Calcutta Monthly Journal

Colonial and Asiatic review

Published in London from 1852-53. Was previously known as Simmond's colonial magazine and foreign miscellany (1844-49) and The Colonial Magazine and East India review (1849-52). Editions can be viewed by page on the National Library of Australia's periodical site.

Google Books has:

Vol I, Jan-Apr 1844 Vol II, May-Aug 1844 Vol III, Sept-Dec 1844 Vol IV, Jan-Apr 1845 Vol V, May-Aug 1845 Vol VI, Sept-Dec 1845
Vol VII, Jan-Apr 1846 Vol VIII, Apr-Aug 1846 Vol IX, Sept-Dec 1846 Vol X, Jan-Apr 1847
Vol XVI, Jan-June 1849 Vol XVII, July-Dec 1849
Vol I, Jul-Dec 1852 Vol II, Jan-June 1853


Colonial Magazine and Commercial Maritime Journal

Published in London between 1840-42, then under the title Fisher's Colonial Magazine and Commercial Maritime Journal from 1842-43. Editions can be viewed by page on the National Library of Australia's periodical site.

Google Books has:

Vol I, Jan-Apr 1840 Vol II, May-Aug 1840 Vol III, Sept-Dec 1840
Vol IV, Jan-Apr 1841 Vol V, May-Aug 1841 Vol VI, Sept-Dec 1841
Vol VII, Jan-Apr 1842
Vol III, May-Aug 1843


Gazette of India

  • The Gazette of India was the official newspaper of the Government of India, where official information was ‘gazetted’. Available on the Digital Library of India website for the years 1877-1918 (broken series). These volumes may be read online, but the volumes are not searchable. Some volumes 1877-1918 (broken series) are also available on the website "DSpace at West Bengal State Central Library" under the subject category Gazetteers as searchable pdf files.


Oriental Magazine, and Calcutta Review

Oriental Herald and Colonial Review

Parbury's Oriental Herald and Colonial Intelligencer

Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Review and Register

Websites Accessible by participating Library Cardholders

There are five sites which contain online newspapers, journals, directories etc, published in India.

The access is restricted to Library Card holders of participating libraries, including the following National Libraries (noting there is generally a residential requirement): Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, State Library of NSW, and many University Libraries. At least one site, ECCO may also be accessed from the British Library Reading Rooms.

The sites are

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Eighteenth Century Journals, Newspapers and Periodicals c 1685-1815

19th Century UK Periodicals

The Making of the Modern World

The Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850

Proquest Historical Newspapers, Times of India option

For details about the publications published in India included in these five sites, refer Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories

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