Jagadananda Roy

Jagadananda Roy
Jagadananda Roy
	Jagadananda Roy
Native name	জগদানন্দ রায
Born	18 September 1869; Krishnanagar, Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Nadia district, West Bengal)
Died	25 June 1933 (aged 63); Shantiniketan, Bengal Presidency, British India (now in West Bengal, India)
Occupation	professor, Writer
Language	Bengali
Nationality	British Indian
Subject	Science fiction
Literary movement	Bengali Renaissance

Jagadananda Roy (Bengali: জগদানন্দ রায; 1869-1933) was an scientific article writer as well as Bengali science fiction writer. His works were primarily written for teens.

Born in an aristocratic family from Krishnanagar, Nadia, he went to teach in a missionary school and wrote popular articles on science. He met Rabindranath Tagore who edited a journal called Sadhana and Roy later joined to become a teacher at Rabindranath Tagore's Visva Bharati.

He also wrote numerous books on science including such as Prakrtiki Paricay, Vijnanacarya Jagadis Basur Abiskar, Vaijnaniki, Prakrtiki, Jnanasopan, Grahanaksatra, Pokamakad (on insects), Vijnaner Galpa, Gachpala, Mach-byang-sap, sabda, Pakhi (on birds), Naksatracena (on stars).^[1]

Roy wrote one of the earliest science fiction stories in Bengali, Shukra Bhraman (Travels to Venus) in 1892, later published in his book Prakritiki (1914).^[2] This described travel to Venus and conjured up alien creatures on Uranus. His humanoid aliens are described as resembling apes, with dense black fur, large heads and long nails. This imaginative science-fiction preceded that of H. G. Wells' somewhat similar The War of the Worlds (1898) by about a decade.^[3]

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^ Bhattacharya, D; Chakravarty, R (1989). "A survey of Bengali writings on science and technology 1800-1950" (PDF). Indian Journal of History of Science. 24 (1): 8–66. PMID 11612558. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
^ বাংলা সায়েন্স ফিকশনের ঐতিহ্য Archived 3 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Siddhartha Ghosh, Kalpabiswa Webmag
^ Sengupta, Debjani (2003). "Sadhanbabu's Friends. Science Fiction in Bengal from 1882-1961" (PDF). Sarai Reader: 76–82. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2007.

3.কল্পবিজ্ঞানের ছোটগল্প 'শুক্র ভ্রমণ'প্রোফেসর শঙ্কুরও আগে

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[1] Bhattacharya, D; Chakravarty, R (1989). "A survey of Bengali writings on science and technology 1800-1950" (PDF). Indian Journal of History of Science. 24 (1): 8–66. PMID 11612558. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2013.

[2] বাংলা সায়েন্স ফিকশনের ঐতিহ্য Archived 3 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Siddhartha Ghosh, Kalpabiswa Webmag

[3] Sengupta, Debjani (2003). "Sadhanbabu's Friends. Science Fiction in Bengal from 1882-1961" (PDF). Sarai Reader: 76–82. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2007.

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