PRINT CULTURE AND ITS ROLE IN SOLVING THE BURNING PROBLEMS:- A CASE STUDY OF BANKURA TOWN

The emergence of newspapers and periodicals from small towns is not an accident. During the British period, many small towns were developed in different areas of Bengal for administrative and commercial reasons. Bankura is a town built in this way. Following the rules of urbanization, people of various professions came to Bankura town from surrounding areas very naturally. Some of these people used to publish these newspapers. Ramnath Mukhopadhyay, Bajendranath Bandyopadhyay, Avinash Chandra Das etc. were some such people in Bankura city. With the initiative of all these people, various newspapers started to be published in Bankura town. At the same time, various printing houses were established under their initiative. Various mythological and religious books were printed on the one hand and various newspapers were printed on the other hand from these printing presses. An attempt has been made here to shed light on what these newspapers used to write about and what kind of books or newspapers were printed from the printing houses.