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Swadesamitran Tamil newspaper launched

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G. Subramania Iyer started Swadesamitran, the first Tamil newspaper owned and run by Indians, in Madras.

Swadesamitran was a Tamil-language newspaper published from Madras from 1882 to 1985. It is described as the first Tamil newspaper owned and operated by Indians. It was founded by G. Subramania Iyer, also a founder of The Hindu, and began as a weekly before becoming a daily. The poet Subramania Bharati later worked on its staff, and the paper became an important vehicle for nationalist ideas in Tamil.

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