New India was a pro Indian freedom newspaper, which simultaneously worked as a mouthpiece for the views of its founder Dr. Annie Besant. During and after the
First World War, the return to Gandhi to India, the involvement of Indian masses in the Indian freedom struggle (which until then had generally remained a topic of discussion only for the English speaking upper class Indians) and the vociferous involvement of
Bipin Chandra Pal,
Bal Gangadhar Tilak,
Lala Lajpat Rai,
Gopal Krishna Gokhale,
Motilal Nehru,
Jawaharlal Nehru and others, the
Indian freedom struggle began to gather momentum in places other than Delhi, Calcutta and Bombay. In 1914, Besant vocalized the idea of the inclusion of more Indians in making decisions related to India at a political and economic level. She called this freedom '
Home Rule', similar to the home rule movement in
Ireland. Regular columnists in
New India's first decade included
S. S. Setlur. ==References==