The Friend of India and The Indian Statesman

Robert Knight, Friend of India and The Indian Statesman, Calcutta, 1884-85

2 Volumes bound in 1
Volume I, No 1: 1st January 1884 to 30th December 1884; 524 pages
Volume II, No 1: 6th January 1885 to 1st August 1885; 368 pages
Half leather bound with green cloth boards
12.9 x 8.6 x 1.7 in (33 x 22 x 4.5 cm)

Rare collection of one of the oldest newspapers still published in India. In all 84 newspapers bound in one.

Indian Statesman was started by Robert Knight, who was previously the principal founder and editor of The Times of India.

Knight merged the two papers to The Statesman and New Friend of India on 15 January 1875. The paper later adopted the current name. It absorbed its erstwhile rival The Englishman in 1927.

"The Friend of India was one of the oldest newspapers of India. The journal was started in the early nineteenth century as a weekly journal, and later incorporated The Indian Observer. Published by the Serampore Press every Thursday morning, The Friend of India became a popular journal with its wide coverage of Indian affairs and international news. In 1875 The Friend of India incorporated another newspaper, The Statesman, founded in the same year, was renamed The Friend of India, and Statesman and came to be published every Friday from ‘the Statesman and Friend of India Office’ in Calcutta. Later, it became a daily newspaper. The journal published articles, reports, notes, notices, statistics, advertisements, obituaries and correspondences". (Source: South Asia Archive, online)

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