| Broadly speaking the functions of the press is to convey government policies to the public keep government informed of public needs and reaction to government policies and keep the public and government informed of events and happenings at home and abroad. Each of these functions developed and the need or it was felt.
The history of the Indian press begins with the coming of Europeans. The Portuguese were the first European nations who brought a printing press to India and the first book published in India was by the Jesuits of Goa in 1552. In 1684 the English east India company’s territories because the company’s servants in India wished to withhold the news of their malpractices and abuses of ‘private trading’ form reading London. |