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| name = Ramananda Chatterjee<br/>রামানন্দ চট্টোপাধ্যায়<br />
| image = Ramananda Chatterjee.jpg<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1865|5|29|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Bankura]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British India]] (present-day [[West Bengal]], [[India]])<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1943|9|30|1865|5|29|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British India]]<br />
| occupation = Journalist, Editor<br />
| spouse =<br />
| children = Kedarnath Chattopadhyay <br />
| nationality = [[British India]]<br />
| parents = Srinath Chattopadhyay<br/>Harasundari Devi<br />
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'''Ramananda Chatterjee''' ({{lang-bn|রামানন্দ চট্টোপাধ্যায়}}) (29 May 1865 – 30 September 1943) was founder, editor, and owner of the [[Calcutta]] based magazine, the ''[[Modern Review (Calcutta)|Modern Review]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Chaudhuri |first=Indrajit |year=2012 |chapter=Prabasi |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Prabasi |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]]}} ('Chattopadhyay' is the original [[Bengali language|Bengali]] surname anglicized by the British to '[[Chatterjee]]')</ref> He has been described as the Father of Indian Journalism.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Chatterjee was born in a middle class [[Bengali Hindu]] Brahmin family, the third child to Srinath Chattopadhyay and Harasundari Devi in the village of Pathakpara in the district of [[Bankura]]. He received his primary education in a Bengali medium school, even though primary education the English medium had become available by then in Bankura. As a child he liked poetry and soon he was drawn to patriotism through the poems of [[Rangalal Bandyopadhyay]]. He passed Student-Scholarship Examination in 1875 from Bankura Banga Vidyalaya. He passed the Entrance from [[Bankura Zilla School]] in 1883 arrived at [[Kolkata]] to pursue higher education. In 1885, he passed the F.A. from the [[St. Xavier's College, Calcutta|St. Xavier's College]] and took admission in the [[City College, Kolkata|City College]]. In 1888, he appeared in the B.A. from City College and stood first class first in the University of Calcutta. He won the Ripon Scholarship of rupees fifty per month. Pleased at the success of Chatterjee, professor Heramba Chandra Maitra offered him the post of assistant editor at the ''Indian Messenger'', the mouthpiece of [[Sadharan Brahmo Samaj]], of which he was the editor at that time. This offer opened up Chatterjee's future career in journalism. In 1890, he completed his Masters in English from University of Calcutta.<br />
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== Career ==<br />
[[File:Towards Home Rule.jpg|thumb|125px|Towards Home Rule, written in 1917.]]<br />
In 1893, he joined the City College as a lecturer. Along with [[Jagadish Chandra Bose]], he founded the children's magazine [[Mukul_(children's_magazine)|Mukul]] with [[Sivanath Sastri]] as the editor. In 1895, he decided to move to [[Allahabad]] with a teaching job at the [[Allahabad Kayastha Pathshala]]. In 1897, he became the chief editor of Bengali literary magazine [[Pradip]]. He, however left Pradip owing to differences in opinion and subsequently launched [[Prabasi]] in 1901.<br />
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In 1907, Chatterjee launched the English magazine ''Modern Review'' and went on to found two others, the third being the Hindi-language ''[[Vishal Bharat]]''.<ref>Kalyan Chatterjee, ''Media and Nation Building in Twentieth-Century India: Life and Times of Ramananda Chatterjee'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020).</ref><br />
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He gave a talk on 10 March 1934 to a group of young students summarising his view of the role of newspapering: He spoke of the gathering of news, ideas and facts drawn from by thoughtful people from the world over; it needs to be put down in a language that a person in the street can understand; the faithful coverage of public opinion must be matched by the boldness to challenge it should that opinion not be pointing in the right direction. A good knowledge of politics and governance is required as well as the history of the rise and fall of nations, economics, social sciences and even insurance. Other issues are the worldwide struggles of labour, the trials that beset women and varying religious beliefs. These need to be properly displayed on the pages with the postings of special correspondents, book reviews, letters and pictures {{citation_needed|date=July 2019}}.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
[[Harish Chandra Mukherjee]]<br />
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