{{Short description|Indian newspaper}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Samachar Chandrika | logo = | image = | caption = | type = | format = | political_position = Dharma Sabha | language = Bengali language | founded = 15 March 1822 | owners = | editor = Bhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay | headquarters = | website = }} '''''Samachar Chandrika''''' was a weekly newspaper founded in 1822 by Bhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay it was an orthodox Hindu newspaper of the Dharma Sabha. It campaigned against social reforms including the ban on Sati by Lord William Bentinck. It was published for over 32 years.<ref name="Ahmed1965">{{cite book|author=A. F. Salahuddin Ahmed|title=Social Ideas and Social Change in Bengal 1818-1835|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qckUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA89|accessdate=9 May 2020|year=1965|publisher=Brill Archive|pages=88–89|id=GGKEY:8YWY14NBR66}}</ref><ref name="DodsonHatcher2013">{{cite book|author1=Michael S. Dodson|author2=Brian A. Hatcher|title=Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZoTDAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT78|accessdate=9 May 2020|date=28 February 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-48445-2|pages=78–}}</ref><ref name="Chaudhury2016">{{cite book|author=Sushil Chaudhury|title=Trade, Politics and Society: The Indian Milieu in the Early Modern Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTUlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA212|accessdate=9 May 2020|date=13 September 2016|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-99728-7|pages=212–}}</ref><ref name="HirstZavos2013">{{cite book|author1=Jacqueline Suthren Hirst|author2=John Zavos|title=Religious Traditions in Modern South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voGoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT224|accessdate=9 May 2020|date=1 March 2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-136-62667-8|pages=224–}}</ref><ref name="ChakrabartiChakrabarti2013">{{cite book|author1=Kunal Chakrabarti|author2=Shubhra Chakrabarti|title=Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVOFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA333|accessdate=9 May 2020|date=22 August 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-8024-5|pages=333–}}</ref>

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