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Bengal Gazette' the weekly magazine was brought out by Gangadhar Bhattacharya.

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The statement mentioned above is false.
In 1780, James Augustus Hickey began editing the Bengal Gazette, a weekly magazine that advertised itself as "a commercial paper open to everybody, but influenced by none." So it was a private English company that established English printing in India, proud of its independence from imperial influence. Hickey ran numerous advertisements, some of which were about the import and selling of enslaved people. However, he also released a lot of gossip about the Company's senior personnel in India. Angered by this, Governor-General Warren Hastings targeted Hickey and pushed publishing officially sanctioned publications to stem the flow of information that harmed the colonial government's image.
The correct statement would be Bengal Gazette,' the weekly magazine, was not brought out by Gangadhar Bhattacharya.

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