Amrita Bazar Patrika - wikipedia Amrita Bazar Patrika Amrita Bazar Patrika Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner ( s ) Amritabazar Pvt. Ltd. Founder ( s ) Sisir Kumar Ghose and Moti Lal Ghosh Editor Mahmud Hossain Founded 20 February 1868 ; 149 years ago ( 1868 - 02 - 20 ) Language Bengali and English ( bilingual ) Headquarters 77, C.R. Dutta Road, Dhaka - 1205 Circulation 25,000 ( before 1991 ) Website www.amritabazar.com Amrita Bazar Patrika ( Bengali : অমৃতবাজার পত্রিকা ) ; is one of the oldest daily newspapers in South Asia and the oldest in Bangladesh. Originally published in Bengali script, it evolved into an English format published from Kolkata and other locations such as Cuttack, Ranchi and Allahabad. The paper discontinued its publication in 1991 after 123 years of publication, although it was relaunched in Dhaka in 2006 where it is now published in Bengali once again. 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 Jessore District during the Bengal Presidency of the British Raj ( present day in Bangladesh ). 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. Contents 1 History 2 Archives 3 References 4 External sources History Amrita Bazaar Patrika was the oldest Indian - owned English daily. It played a major role in the evolution and growth of Indian journalism and made a striking contribution to creating and nurturing the Indian freedom struggle. In 1920, Russian Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin described ABP as the best nationalist paper in India. ABP was born as a Bengali weekly in February 1868 in the village of Amrita Bazaar in Jessore district ( now located in modern - day Bangladesh ). It was started by the Ghosh brothers to fight the cause of peasants who were being exploited by indigo planters. Sisir Kumar Ghosh was the first editor. The Patrika operated out of a battered wooden press purchased for Rs 32. In 1871, the Patrika moved to Calcutta ( now Kolkata ), due to the outbreak of plague in Amrita Bazaar. Here it functioned as a bilingual weekly, publishing news and views in English and Bengali. Its anti-government views and vast influence among the people was a thorn in the flesh of the government. Lord Lytton, the Viceroy of India promulgated the Vernacular Press Act on 1878 mainly against ABP. The Patrika became a daily in 1891. It was the first Indian - owned English daily to go into investigative journalism. During the tenure of Lord Lansdowne, a Patrika journalist rummaged through the waste paper basket of the Viceroy 's office and pieced together a torn up letter detailing the Viceroy 's plans to annexe Kashmir. ABP published the letter on its front page, where it was read by the Maharaja of Kashmir, who immediately went to London and lobbied for his independence. Sisir Kumar Ghosh also launched vigorous campaigns against restrictions on civil liberties and economic exploitation. He wanted Indians to be given important posts in the administration. Both he and his brother Motilal were deeply attached to Bal Gangadhar Tilak. When Tilak was prosecuted for sedition in 1897, they raised funds in Calcutta for his defence. They also published a scathing editorial against the judge who sentenced Tilak to 6 years of imprisonment, for ' presuming to teach true patriotism to a proved and unparalleled patriot. ' The Patrika had many brushes with Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India at the time of the Partition of Bengal ( 1905 ). It referred to him as ' Young and a little foppish, and without previous training but invested with unlimited powers. ' Because of such editorials, the Press Act of 1910 was passed and a security of Rs 5,000 was demanded from ABP. Motilal Ghosh was also charged with sedition but his eloquence won the case. After this, the Patrika started prefacing articles criticising the British government with ridiculously exuberant professions of loyalty to the British crown. When Subhas Chandra Bose and other students were expelled from Calcutta Presidency College, the Patrika took up their case and succeeded in having them re-admitted. Even after Motilal Ghosh 's death in 1922, the Patrika kept up its nationalist spirit. Higher securities of Rs 10,000 were demanded from it during the Salt Satyagraha. Its editor Tushar Kanti Ghosh ( son of Sisir Kumar Ghosh ) was imprisoned. The Patrika contributed its share to the success of its freedom movement under the leadership of Gandhi and suffered for its views and actions at the hands of the British rulers. The Patrika espoused the cause of communal harmony during the Partition of India. During the great Calcutta killings of 1946, the Patrika left its editorial columns blank for three days. When freedom dawned on August 15, 1947, the Patrika published in an editorial : It is dawn, cloudy though it is. Presently sunshine will break. Archives This Hopkinson & Cope press was used for the Amrita Bazar Patrika. Now it is at the National Science Centre, New Delhi. As a part of the ' Endangered Archive project ' attempting to rescue text published prior to 1950, the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta took up the project of digitizing the old newspapers ( ABP and Jugantar ) for safe storage and retrieval in 2010. The newspaper archives are also available from the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Delhi, and in 2011 over one lakh images from the newspaper were digitized by the library and available online. and also at The Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge. References ^ Jump up to : `` Debts kill 123 - year - old English daily Amrita Bazar Patrika ''. Retrieved 2017 - 07 - 20. ^ Jump up to : Gupta, Subhrangshu ( 2 January 2003 ). `` Amrita Bazar Patrika may be relaunched ''. The Tribune. Retrieved 2006 - 12 - 28. Jump up ^ Registrar of Newspapers for India Archived March 13, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ Political Agitators in India, A Confidential Report, pp. 15, Available in Digitized form on Archives.org, contributed by Library of University of Toronto, Digitized for Microsoft Corporation by Internet Archive in 2007, provided by University of Toronto, accessed on June 8, 2009 and link at https://archive.org/details/politicalagitato00slsnuoft Jump up ^ Retrieval of two major and endangered newspapers : CSSSC Archived February 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` Nehru Memorial library digitised ''. The Times of India. May 28, 2011. 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Question: when was the amrit bazar patrika started in bangla
Answer: 20 February 1868