Bhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay [SEP] date of birth
Bhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay
Bhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay () (1787 – 20 February 1848) was a noted Indian journalist, author and an orator. He was adored for his deftness in speech. He was a conservative Hindu, who opposed Ram Mohan Roy in the abolition of Sati System. He was the founder of the "Dharma Sabha". After his death, a work on his life and history ("Jeebancharit") was published in 1849 under the custody of his son, Raj Krishna Bandyopadhyay, the then Secretary of
. It also reproduced the prospectus and the 'Appeal to the Bengali Public'. In the appeal, Ram Mohan Roy said:
Though Bhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay was nominally in charge of this weekly till the publication of its thirteenth issue, Ram Mohan was its promoter, and for all practical purposes, also its editor. After Bhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay, Harihar Dutta was the editor for some time, followed by Gobinda Chandra Kongar. Due to lack of sufficient patronage "Kaumudi" had to stop publication in October 1822. In April