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Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd

Documented from 1838

Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd — 1838 is the founding date given by the Media Ownership Monitor, being the first publication of the Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, cited to Media Ownership Monitor India.

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  • 1838 — the founding date given by the Media Ownership Monitor, being the first publication of the Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. · 1838

held role at

  • Headed Bennett Coleman, publisher of The Times of India Indu Jain

    • Indian Media: Marwaris Write the Script

      “No surprise then that the country’s leading newspaper groups are run by Marwari families. Be it the world’s most read newspaper Dainik Jagran from the stable of Mahendra Mohan Gupta’s Jagran Prakashan, or the world’s most-read English newspaper, The Times of India, published by Bennett Coleman, headed by Indu Jain. Then there is the venerable Indian Express headed by Viveck Goenka, TV media mogul Subhash Chandra who also publishes English daily DNA, and the nation’s second-most read newspapers in Hindi and English (Hindustan and Hindustan Times) published by HT Media’s Bhartia.”