Ramananda Chatterjee
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Ramananda Chatterjee রামানন্দ চট্টোপাধ্যায় | |
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British India | |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, Editor |
Children | Kedarnath Chattopadhyay |
Parent(s) | Srinath Chattopadhyay Harasundari Devi |
Ramananda Chatterjee (
Calcutta based magazine, the Modern Review.[1]
He has been described as the Father of Indian Journalism.
Early life
Chatterjee was born in a middle class
St. Xavier's College and took admission in the City College. In 1888, he appeared in the B.A. from City College and stood first class first in the University of Calcutta. He won the Ripon Scholarship of rupees fifty per month. Pleased at the success of Chatterjee, Heramba Chandra Maitra offered him the post of assistant editor at the Indian Messenger, the mouthpiece of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, of which he was the editor at that time. This offer opened up Chatterjee's future career in journalism. In 1890, he completed his Master of Arts degree in English at the University of Calcutta.[citation needed
]
Career
In 1893, he joined the City College as a lecturer. Along with
Allahabad with a teaching job at the Allahabad Kayastha Pathshala. In 1897, he became the chief editor of Bengali literary magazine Pradip. He, however left Pradip owing to differences in opinion and subsequently launched Prabasi in 1901.[citation needed
]
In 1907, Chatterjee launched the English magazine Modern Review and went on to found two others, the third being the Hindi-language Vishal Bharat (magazine).[2]
References
- ^ Chaudhuri, Indrajit (2012). "Prabasi". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ('Chattopadhyay' is the original Bengali surname anglicized by the British to 'Chatterjee')
- ^ Kalyan Chatterjee, Media and Nation Building in Twentieth-Century India: Life and Times of Ramananda Chatterjee (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020).
External links
Media related to Ramananda Chatterji at Wikimedia Commons