Sambad Kaumudi

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Sambad Kaumudi
সংবাদ কৌমুদী
TypeWeekly
Raja Rammohan Roy
PublisherBhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay, Gobinda Chandra Kongar
EditorBhabani Charan ,Bandyopadhyay, Harihar Dutta, Gobinda Chandra Kongar, Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay
Founded1819
Political alignmentnone
LanguageBengali
Ceased publication1836
HeadquartersKolkata, Bengal

Sambad Kaumudi (

Ram Mohan Roy. It was a noted pro-Reformist publication that actively campaigned for the abolition(stop) of the Sati
Pratha.

History

In the prospectus for the Sambad Kaumudi, published in English and

Ram Mohan
appealed to his countrymen to lend him "the support and patronage of all who feel themselves interested in the moral and intellectual improvement of our countrymen". In the same prospectus, he further stated that religious, moral and political matters, domestic occurrence, foreign as well as local intelligence including original communications on various hitherto unpublished interesting local topics, etc. would be published in the Sambad Kaumudi every Tuesday.

Although

Ram Mohan Roy
said:

It is our intention hereafter to give further currency to the Articles inserted in this paper, by translating the most interesting parts in the different languages of the East, particularly Persian and Hindoostanee; but all this will entail considerable expense, the accomplishment of it will, of course, depend upon the encouragement which we may be able to obtain. The foregoing being an outline of what we are desirous of performing, our countrymen will readily conclude that although the paper in question be conducted by us, and may consequently be considered our property, yet virtually it is the 'paper of the public' since in it they can at all times have inserted, anything that tends to the public good ...[2]

Though

Ram Mohan was its promoter, and for all practical purposes, also its editor. After Bhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay, Harihar Dutta was the editor for some time, followed by Gobinda Chandra Kongar. Due to lack of sufficient patronage Kaumudi had to stop publication in October 1822. In April 1823 a license was granted under the new Press Regulation to Gobinda Chandra Kongar to publish and Ananda Gopal Mukherji to edit the newspaper.[1]
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Campaign against Sati

Sambad Kaumudi regularly editorialised against

Ram Mohan Roy, responded to the growing public outcry by outlawing Sati
in 1829.

Government Attitude

The Government viewed the newspaper with an eye of suspicion. The officials believed that the newspaper was inspired by the

Calcutta Journal and patronized by its owner James Silk Buckingham. The Asiatic Journal, the unofficial organ of the East India Company published from London took Buckingham to task for encouraging and patronizing an Indian newspaper like the Sambad Kaumudi which, it thought, could serve no other purpose that to promote Indian disaffection against British rule.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Social Ideas and Social Change in Bengal 1818–1835. Brill Archive.
  2. ^
    ISBN 81-261-0938-6
    .
  3. ISBN 1-85065-680-0
    .
  4. ISBN 81-7024-529-X
    .
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