Hicky's Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India's First Newspaper

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PQR Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Main Characters Prologue PART I THE JOURNALIST The Wild Irishman The City of Palaces A Plan of Industry Coote’s Contract Droz’s Offer Refugee Missionary Dealings with the World A Nail in My Coffin A Company Man Back to Bengal Four Guns Short PART II THE NEWSPAPER Open to all Parties, but Influenced by None These Evils Must Come The Duel A Rival Suppression His Platform Colonel Pearse Colonel Snail On the March For the Good of the Mission In Darkness Night’s Assassins Sledgehammers on Tuesday Hastings v. Hicky The Verdict Kiernander v. Hicky A Man Among Dregs Plates PART III PERSEVERANCE Singh’s Rebellion Unparalleled Insolence A Darker Turn Double Jeopardy Back to Britain His Lying Tongue Impey’s Recall Letters from Birjee Jail Freedom on Christmas Disgrace Downfall Despair Notes on Other Characters Epilogue Afterword Acknowledgments References About the Author