'Its editorial stances have earned it the nickname, the ' Maha Vishnu of Mount Road'. The building itself became The Hindu 's in 1892, after the Maharaja of Vizianagaram, Pusapati Ananda Gajapati Raju, gave The National Press a loan both for the building and to carry out needed expansion.

The newspaper started printing at its own press there, named 'The National Press,' which was established on borrowed capital as public subscriptions were not forthcoming. The offices moved to rented premises at 100 Mount Road on 3 December 1883. A single copy of the newspaper was priced at four annas. Started as a weekly newspaper, the paper became a tri-weekly in 1883 and an evening daily in 1889. The paper was initially printed from Srinidhi Press but later moved to Scottish Press, then to The Hindu Press, Mylapore. Subramania Iyer became the first editor and Veera Raghavacharya, the first managing director of the newspaper. About 100 copies of the inaugural issue were printed at Srinidhi Press, Georgetown, on one rupee and twelve annas of borrowed money.

Muthuswamy Iyer for a judgeship at the Madras High Court and to counter the campaign against him carried out by the Anglo-Indian press, The Hindu was one of the newspapers of the period established to protest the policies of the British Raj. Started in order to support the campaign of Sir T. Veeraraghavacharyar, a lecturer at Pachaiyappa's College.

Subramania Iyer (a school teacher from Tanjore district) and M. The Hindu was founded in Madras on 20 September 1878 as a weekly newspaper, by what was known then as the Triplicane Six consisting of four law students and two teachers:- T.

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