Amrita Bazaar Patrika
Amrita Bazar Patrika was the first Indian magazine. The first edition appeared on February 20, 1868 , at that time still under the name Patrika as a weekly publication .
The magazine was edited, printed and published for the first time in Palua Magura , a small town in the Jessore district , which is now part of Bangladesh . Only after the eldest of the three Ghosh brothers, Basanta Kumar, had successfully started his two-week script Amrita Pabahini and named it after the name "Amritamayee", the mother of the brothers, was the name of the small town changed to Amrita Bazar . The journal, which at one of Shishir Kumar in Kolkata purchased wooden press of the type Balein was printed, dealt mainly with literary, technical and agricultural problems. When Basanta Kumar died in 1867, Amrita Prabahini also stopped appearing.
At that time Shishir Kumar and his brother Hemanta Kumar were working as government tax assessors. Despite their good position at the time, both decided to give up this work in order to publish a weekly in Bengali . The newspaper appeared in Bengali for around a year, published in Amrita Bazar (from February 20, 1868 to February 29, 1869). Then they began to write in English for the first time. The last edition of the Patrika printed in Amrita Bazar appeared on October 4, 1871. The first edition of the Patrika printed in Kolkata was published on December 21, 1871. On November 19, 1875, an overland edition appeared in English aimed at non-Bengali readers and English-speaking Indians. The patrika remained bilingual until March 14, 1878. The following issue of March 21 was published in English only. The publisher and editorial staff had thus closely adhered to the provisions of the Vernacular Press Act , which was passed by the then legislature , a law with which it had been hoped to be able to control the nationalist newspapers more easily through censorship. With effect from February 19, 1891, Amrita Bazar Patrika finally appeared as an English-language daily newspaper .
From 1928 until his death in 1994, Tushar Kanti Ghosh was editor of Amrita Bazar Patrika. The newspaper has since been discontinued.
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- ↑ Subhrangshu Gupta: Amrita Bazar Patrika may be relaunched.