The Statesman (India)
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The 30 March 2010, front page of
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | The Statesman Limited |
| Publisher | The Statesman Ltd. |
| Editor | Ravindra Kumar |
| Founded | 1875 (52105 issues) |
| Political alignment | Independent |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 4 Chowringhee Square, Kolkata, 700001 |
| Circulation | 180,000 Daily 230,000 Sunday |
| Sister newspapers | Dainik Statesman |
| OCLC number | 1772961 |
| Website | www |
The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper founded in 1875 and published simultaneously in Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar. It incorporates and is directly descended from The Friend of India, founded in 1818. It is owned by The Statesman Ltd and headquartered at Statesman House, Chowringhee Square, Kolkata, with its national editorial office at Statesman House, Connaught Place, New Delhi. It is a member of the Asia News Network.
The Statesman has an average weekday circulation of approximately 180,000, and the Sunday Statesman has a circulation of 230,000. This ranks it as one of the leading English newspapers in West Bengal, India.
The Statesman is a direct descendant of two newspapers, The Englishman and The Friend of India, both published in Calcutta (now Kolkata). The Englishman was started by Robert Knight, who was previously the principal founder and editor of The Times of India. Knight founded The Statesman and New Friend of India on 15 January 1875, which later adopted the current name. The Statesman was managed by a British corporate group until it transferred ownership to a consortium of companies with N A Palkhivala as Chairman in the mid-1960s. The first editor assigned under this new ownership was Pran Chopra.
The Statesman is characterized by its terse reporting style. It holds an independent anti-establishment position. It opposed the shifting of India's capital from Calcutta to New Delhi in 1911, stating that "[t]he British have gone to the city of graveyards to be buried there". It also strenuously opposed Indira Gandhi's Emergency in 1975-77. The Statesman also released gut reaching images of the effects of the Bengal Famine of 1943 despite the British Colonial governments attempt at censorship, playing a major role in changing world opinion on imperialism.
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