Amrita Bazar Patrika

Amrita Bazar Patrika was the first Indian magazine. The first issue was published on 20 February 1868 at that time under the name Patrika than weekly.

The magazine was first edited, printed and published in Palua Magura, a small town in the district of Jessore, which now belongs to Bangladesh. Only after the eldest of the three brothers Ghosh, Basanta Kumar, had successfully launched its two-week writing Amrita Pabahini and for the name " Amritamayee ," the mother of the brothers, called, the name of the small town was renamed in Amrita Bazar. The journal, which was printed on one of Shishir Kumar purchased in Kolkata wooden press of the type Balein, dealt mainly with literary, technical and agricultural problems. When Basanta Kumar died in 1867, also provided Amrita Prabahini ceased publication.

At that time worked Shishir Kumar and his brother Hemanta Kumar as tax experts of the government. Both decided despite their good for that time position to give this work to publish a weekly newspaper in Bengali. Around a year, the newspaper appeared in Bengali, edited in Amrita Bazar ( from February 20 1868 to February 29, 1869). Then you first started to write in English. The last printed in Amrita Bazar Patrika published edition of the October 4, 1871. The first printed edition of Patrika in Kolkata came out on December 21, 1871. On November 19, 1875 an overland edition appeared in English, which turned to nichtbengalische readers and English-speaking Indians. By March 14, 1878, the Patrika remained bilingual. The following output of 21 March appeared exclusively in English. Thus, publisher and editorial staff have closely followed the provisions of the adopted by the former legislator Vernacular Press Act, a law by which it was hoped to be able to control the nationalist newspapers easier to censorship. With effect from Amrita Bazar Patrika February 19, 1891 was published as definitive English-language daily newspaper.

From 1928 until his death in 1994 was Tushar Kanti Ghosh Amrita Bazar Patrika editor of. Meanwhile, the appearance of the newspaper has been set.