The Bengal Times a newspaper published from Dhaka. It was the second newspaper of its kind published in 1871. E. C. Kemp was the editor. The Bengal Times was a very influential newspaper in East Bengal. An 1875 review of the region by Scottish historian William Wilson Hunter stated: "The principal English journal is the Bengal Times, lately called the Dacca News, a weekly periodical with an estimated circulation of about 250. It represents the interests of the great landholders and indigo and tea planters".