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Capital (A Weekly Journal of Commerce, Industry and Finance), was India's oldest financial newspaper, covering trade, economic output, industry, infrastructure development, public affairs and current events.[1] It was published in Kolkata. Its original subtitle was "A Weekly Commercial Paper Devoted to the Interests of Capitalists and Employers of Labour". Its frequency of publication varied from weekly to fortnightly to monthly. In its habitual weekly version it ran to as many as 90 pages.
Capital was founded by British businessmen Shirley Tremearne and W. H. Targett in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in November 1888 as a commercial and financial weekly newspaper in English.[2] Shirley Tremearne was the founder and managing director of the Great Eastern Hotel.[3] The newspaper was headquartered close to the Great Eastern Hotel in Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah Sarani (formerly known as Waterloo Street).
A 1917 compendium of information about the British Crown possession of Bengal noted that "Although Capital is primarily a financial review, its pages are crammed with good readable articles on political, social, trading, and other items of general interest... This paper was never more influential and powerful than it is today, and there is no paper published in India which is so well known in other countries as Capital, or which can give greater facilities for advertisements relating to financial and commercial concerns".[4] After Indian independence, the editor of Capital was Australian journalist Neil McInnes. When he left India for Europe in 1953, Capital was edited by George Barrell.[5]
Capital ceased publication in 1979.
References
[edit]- ^ Magire, Aruna and Alspach, Judy : "Preserving Capital: An Important News Source for Indian Economic History" Focus on Global Resources, Fall 2015, Vol. 35, Num. 1, published by the Center for Research Libraries, Global Resources Network, Chicago https://www.crl.edu/focus/article/11934
- ^ "Shirley Tremearne: The ambitious hotelier who created India's first financial newspaper", The Indian Express, updated 30 September 2024, https://indianexpress.com/article/research/shirley-tremearne-the-ambitious-hotelier-who-created-indias-first-financial-newspaper-9596209/
- ^ Chattopadhyay, Devasis (2024), "Harry Hobbs of Kolkata and Other Forgotten Lives" published by Paper Missile Books, ISBN: 978-81-19626-14-4
- ^ Playne, Somerset; Bond, J.W., and Wright, Arnold (1917): "Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: their history, people, commerce and industrial resources", published by Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co., London http:// babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951p0114 0315f;view=1up;seq=728
- ^ Obituary: George Barrell, 1924-2004, Military History Journal, Vol 13 No 2 - December 2004, published by the South African Military History Society, Cape Town. http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol132gb.html