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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Founder(s) | Sisir Kumar Ghose and Moti Lal Ghosh |
Founded | 20 February 1868 |
Language | Bengali and English (bilingual) |
Ceased publication | 1991 |
Circulation | 25,000 (before 1991)[1] |
Sister newspapers | Jugantar[2] |
Amrita Bazar Patrika was one of the oldest daily newspapers in India. Originally published in Bengali script,[3] it evolved into an English format published from Kolkata and other locations such as Cuttack, Ranchi and Allahabad.[4] The paper discontinued its publication in 1991 after 123 years of publication.[1][3] Its sister newspaper was the Bengali-language daily newspaper Jugantar, which remained in circulation from 1937 till 1991.[2][1]
It debuted on 20 February 1868. It was started by Sisir Ghosh and Moti Lal Ghosh, sons of Hari Naryan Ghosh, a rich merchant from Magura, in District Jessore, in Bengal Province of British Empire in India. The family had constructed a Bazaar and named it after Amritamoyee, wife of Hari Naryan Ghosh. Sisir Ghosh and Moti Lal Ghosh started Amrita Bazar Patrika as a weekly first. It was first edited by Motilal Ghosh, who did not have a formal university education. It had built its readership as a rival to Bengalee which was being looked after by Surendranath Banerjee.[5] After Sisir Ghosh retired, his son Tushar Kanti Ghosh became editor for the next sixty years, running the newspaper from 1931 to 1991.[6]
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