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Ramananda Chatterjee রামানন্দ চট্টোপাধ্যায় Born (1865-05-29)29 May 1865 Bankura, Bengal, British India (present-day West Bengal, India) Died 30 September 1943(1943-09-30) (aged 78) Kolkata, Bengal, British India Occupations Journalist, Editor Children Kedarnath Chattopadhyay Parent(s) Srinath Chattopadhyay Harasundari Devi

**Ramananda Chatterjee** ([Bengali](/source/Bengali_language): রামানন্দ চট্টোপাধ্যায়; 29 May 1865 – 30 September 1943) was the founder, editor, and owner of the [Calcutta](/source/Calcutta) based magazine, the *[Modern Review](/source/Modern_Review_(Calcutta))*.[1] He has been described as the Father of Indian Journalism.

## Early life

Chatterjee was born in 1865 to a middle class [Bengali Hindu](/source/Bengali_Hindu) [Brahmin](/source/Brahmin) family, the third child to Srinath Chattopadhyay and Harasundari Devi, in the village of Pathakpara in the district of [Bankura](/source/Bankura).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] He received his primary education in a Bengali medium school, even though primary education the English medium had become available by then in Bankura.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] As a child he liked poetry and soon he was drawn to patriotism through the poems of [Rangalal Bandyopadhyay](/source/Rangalal_Bandyopadhyay).

Chatterjee in 1909

Chaterjee passed Student-Scholarship Examination in 1875 from Bankura Banga Vidyalaya. He passed the Entrance from [Bankura Zilla School](/source/Bankura_Zilla_School) in 1883 arrived at [Kolkata](/source/Kolkata) to pursue higher education. In 1885, he passed the F.A. from the [St. Xavier's College](/source/St._Xavier's_College%2C_Calcutta) and took admission in the [City College](/source/City_College%2C_Kolkata). In 1888, he appeared in the B.A. from City College and stood first class first in the [University of Calcutta](/source/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](/source/Sadharan_Brahmo_Samaj), of which he was the editor at that time. This offer opened up Chatterjee's future career in journalism.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

In 1890, he completed his Master of Arts degree in English at the University of Calcutta.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Career

Towards Home Rule, written in 1917.

In 1893, Chatterjee joined the City College as a lecturer. Along with [Jagadish Chandra Bose](/source/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose), he founded the illustrated children's magazine [*Mukul*](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mukul_(children%27s_magazine)&action=edit&redlink=1) with [Sivanath Sastri](/source/Sivanath_Sastri) as the editor.[2]

In 1895, Chatterjee moved to [Allahabad](/source/Allahabad) to teach at the [Kayastha Pathshala](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kayastha_Pathshala&action=edit&redlink=1).[3] In 1897, Chatterjee became the chief editor of Bengali language literary magazine *[Pradip](/source/Pradip)*. He left Pradip owing to differences in opinion and subsequently launched *[Prabasi](/source/Prabasi)* in 1901.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Prabasi means a Bengali living outside Bengal.[4]

In 1907, Chatterjee launched the English language magazine *Modern Review,*[5] which he edited until 1942.[6] He went on to found two others, the third being the Hindi language *[Vishal Bharat (magazine)](/source/Vishal_Bharat_(magazine))*.[7]

Chatterjee in 1940

In 1929, Chaterjee published an Indian edition of *India in Bondage* *Her Right to Freedom*, written by American [Unitarian](/source/Unitarianism) minister [Jabez T. Sunderland](/source/Jabez_T._Sunderland), with his printer Sajami Das.[7] For his publication of the work, Chaterjee was charged with [sedition](/source/Sedition), was arrested and was given a fine of 1,000 rupees and a jail sentence of three months.[8] The book was also banned.[9][*[page needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)*]

In 1932, Chaterjee attended a Unity Conference in Allahabad, representing Bengali Hindus.[10]

## Death

Chatterjee died in 1943.[11][12]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Chaudhuri, Indrajit (2012). ["Prabasi"](http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Prabasi). In [Islam, Sirajul](/source/Sirajul_Islam); Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). *Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh* (Second ed.). [Asiatic Society of Bangladesh](/source/Asiatic_Society_of_Bangladesh). ('Chattopadhyay' is the original [Bengali](/source/Bengali_language) surname anglicized by the British to '[Chatterjee](/source/Chatterjee)')

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Basu, Jitendra Nath (1979). [*Romance of Indian Journalism*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ILnZQyWng3kC&q=Ramananda+Chatterjee). Calcutta University. pp. 279–280.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Hofmeyr, Isabel (1 January 2007). ["The Idea of 'Africa' in Indian Nationalism: Reporting the Diaspora in The Modern Review 1907–1929"](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470709464709). *South African Historical Journal*. **57**: 60–81. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1080/02582470709464709](https://doi.org/10.1080%2F02582470709464709).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Malhotra, Aanchal (2021). [*Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided*](https://books.google.com/books?id=cJ41EQAAQBAJ&dq=Ramananda+Chatterjee&pg=PA197). Oxford University Press. p. 197. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-78738-603-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78738-603-7).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Dutta, Krishna (2003). [*Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History*](https://books.google.com/books?id=UKfoHi5412UC&dq=Ramananda+Chatterjee&pg=PA207). Signal Books. p. 207. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-902669-59-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-902669-59-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Deva, Narendra (1998). [*Selected Works of Acharya Narendra Deva: 1948-1952*](https://books.google.com/books?id=oqjaAAAAMAAJ&q=Ramananda+Chatterjee). Radiant Publishers. p. 67. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-81-7027-176-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-81-7027-176-5).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_7-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_7-1) Chatterjee, K. (2019). [*Media and Nation Building in Twentieth-Century India: Life and Times of Ramananda Chatterjee*](https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429347320) (1st ed.). Routledge India.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["INDIA: Devil People?"](https://time.com/archive/6897537/india-devil-people/). *Time*. 26 August 1929. Retrieved 2 September 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Kaul, Chandrika (31 July 2014). [*Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience: Britain and India in the Twentieth Century*](https://books.google.com/books?id=L9QaBgAAQBAJ&dq=Ramananda+Chatterjee&pg=PT75). Springer. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-137-44596-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-137-44596-4).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Chakrabarty, Bidyut (2 August 2004). [*The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-1947: Contour of Freedom*](https://books.google.com/books?id=YRyAAgAAQBAJ&dq=Ramananda+Chatterjee&pg=PA65). Routledge. p. 65. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-134-33275-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-134-33275-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["The Late Mr. Ramananda Chatterjee"](https://books.google.com/books?id=g3g7w0iEpc0C&q=Ramananda+Chatterjee). *The Indian Review*. **44**. G.A. Natesan & Company: 458. 1948.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** Zabarskaitė, Jolita (7 November 2022). [*'Greater India' and the Indian Expansionist Imagination, c. 1885–1965: The Rise and Decline of the Idea of a Lost Hindu Empire*](https://books.google.com/books?id=efqjEAAAQBAJ&dq=ramananda+chatterjee+obituary&pg=PA311). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 311. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-11-098606-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-11-098606-8).

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