Hicky’s Bengal Gazette was the first newspaper in India. It was published in the year 1780. It was an English newspaper (weekly) published in Kolkata. James Augustus Hicky (Irish) was the publisher of the Newspaper. It was banned in 1782.
The Moplah Rebellion (or Malabar Rebellion) was an armed uprising against British authority and Hindu landlords in Malabar, Kerala in 1921. But the the movement was severely suppressed by the British forces.