Fardunji Murzban: The Runaway Boy Who Founded India’s Oldest Newspaper

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Fardunji Murzban transformed his passion for learning into a publishing revolution. His Gujarati newspaper, Mumbai Samachar, created a new public sphere, leaving a legacy that has endured for over two centuries.

Few lives illustrate the making of modern India as vividly as that of Fardunji Murzban. Long before newspapers became instruments of political movements or commercial empires, they were fragile ventures sustained by little more than conviction and curiosity.

Murzban’s story began in the quieter lanes of Surat, where an ambitious boy once fled his family home with little more than a bundle of clothes and a handful of books. Barely twelve years old, he walked for hours beyond the city limits, driven by a determination that defied convention.



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