Free Press Journal, The (Mumbai)

The Free Press Journal founded in 1928 is the one of the oldest English-language daily broadsheets. It is published in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It began as Free Press Bulletin - a response against publications favorable to the British Raj, in a Sunday Supplement to the Advocate of India (acting in tandem with the Free Press of India news agency, an organization that supported nationalist causes).

The Free Press of India news agency and the Free Press Bulletin were among the first Indian owned and operated organizations in the country. By 1931, the paper published on its own and changed its name to the Free Press Journal.

The British Empire attempted to stop the newspaper's publication, often arresting its publisher, shutting off power, and even seizing machines. Under the British rule's Press Act, publishing stories about freedom from British rule amounted to sedition and allowed seizure of property or publication forfeit. . The publication was suspended several times by the British authorities under the infamous Press Act, which gave the rulers blanket power to seize any press or forfeit any publication. Despite all the strong-arm tactics used by the authorities, The Free Press Journal continued its interrupted publication for more than 9 decades. Regardless of the past harassments, the Free Press Journal is still in print today.

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