Ramananda Lectures. The Newspaper in India

The difference between the pay of the sepny and that of the Euopean soldier was as glaringly unreason- able as that between the pay of the Indian officers in the administrative or judicial service and that of the I. C. [...] Barns has truly said :—" Three factors were leading to a great increase in the newspaper-reading public : the emancipation of the Press, the spread of the knowledge of English, and the rapid commercial expansion. " But the spirit that pervaded the Dispatch of 1936 was continued till the last day of British rule in India and restrictions on the liberty of the Press sat like an incubus on the countr [...] Political capital has been made out of the bloodshed in the North-West. " The impatience on the part of the bureaucracy in India of criticism was growing with the growth of the desire of the people to secure independence. [...] of the head of the Government to wriggle out of the ugly situation created by the publication made the Statesman remark :— " The main allegations of the Patrika are thus practically admitted, and it seems to be only fair to say that the inaccuracies which have been found in the published version of Sir M. Durand's minute must be due rather to the circumstances under which, apparenty the copy was m [...] It must, from the nature of things, be always in opposition. " The first attempt to prosecute a newspaper on a charge of sedition was the case instituted against the Bangabasi (Calcutta) in 1891, when the Officiating Standing Counsel applied for warrants - against the Proprietor, the Editor, the Manager and the Printer and Publisher of the paper under Sections 124A and 500 of the Indian Penal Code