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'''Harish Chandra Mitra''' (1837–1872) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] playwright, poet, essayist, journalist. His father, Abhay Charan Mitra was a resident of [[Howrah]], [[West Bengal]]. He spent his childhood in dire poverty. In his teen-hood, he joined a press as a compositor. Later he became a teacher at a junior school in [[Dhaka]]. At the age of 21, his first poem was published in 1858 in the ''Sambad Probhakar''. He was an orthodox [[Hindu]] and opposed [[Brahmoism]] and [[obscenity]] in literature.<ref name="Banglapedia">{{cite book |last=Maksud |first=Syed Abul |year=2012 |chapter=Mitra, Harish Chandra |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Mitra,_Harish_Chandra |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref>

In the last phase of his life, Mitra was mainly a journalist, editor and publisher. He published the first newspaper from [[Dhaka]]: monthly ''Kavita Kushumabali''(1960).<ref name="Banglapedia"/> Mitra edited many newspapers; among them are monthly ''Abakashranjika''(1962), weekly ''Dhaka Darpan''(1963), ''Kabya Prokash'' (1864), ''Hindu Hitoishi'' (1865), and ''Hindu Ranjika'' (1868). Weekly ''Dhaka Darpan''(1963) was the first weekly published from Dhaka.<ref name="Banglapedia"/> Monthly ''Mitra Prokash'' (1870), which is said to be one of the best periodicals published from Dhaka in the 19th century was published and edited by Harish Chandra Mitra.<ref name="Banglapedia"/>

==Publications==

===Plays===
*''Shuvashya Shigrang''
*''Myao Dharbe Ke''(1862)
*''Ghar Thakte Babui Bheje''(1863),
*''Janaki Natak''(1863)
*''Joydhuth Badh Brittanta''(1864)
*''Prahlad Natak''(1872)
*''Onuda Jubati''(1872)
*''Hatabhagya Shikshak''(1872)

====Verse plays====
*''Agamoni'' (1870)
*''Natoon Jamai''
*''Hathat Babu''
*''Sal Nai Kukurer Bagha Nam''

===Poetry===
*''Hashyarash Tarangini'' (1862),
*''Bidhoba Bangalalona'' (1863),
*''Beer Bakyabali'' (1864),
*''Kichak Badh Kabya'' (1866),
*''Bangabala'' (1868),
*''Ramayana'' (1869),
*''Kavi Rahashya'' (1870),
*''Kavi Kautuk'' (1870),
*''Nirbashita Sita'' (1871),
*''Durbhagini Shyama'' (1872),
*''Kavitabali'' (1872),
*''Charu Kavita'' (3 vol, 1872)

===Prose===
*''Kautuk Shatak'' (1863),
*''Kirtibasher Parichay'' (1870),
*''Kavikalap'' (1866)

Harish Chandra Mitra also wrote a number of school-text books including ''Saralpath'' (1863), ''Kavita Kaumoodi'' (3 vol), ''Chhatra Sakha'', ''Kushumlata'', and ''Chasitabalir Artha''.

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