November 03
November 03
The daily was formed in 1838 in Mumbai (then Bombay) under the British Raj to serve the British citizens of western India, after Lord Metcalfe's Act of 1835, which loosened limits on the freedom of the Indian press. J.E. Brennan, a retired Irish doctor who was also secretary of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, was its first editor. Initially, the daily was produced twice weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, under the guidance of Maharashtrian Reformist Raobahadur Narayan Dinanath Velkar, and carried news from Britain and throughout the world.
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