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Ugrakshatriya-Pratinidhi
Two historical journal volumes, preserved as source material for the study of the Aguri community.
Ugrakshatriya-Pratinidhi — উগ্রক্ষত্রিয়-প্রতিনিধি, “The Ugrakshatriya Representative” — is one of the historical sources used in researching Aguri heritage. Its pages document some of the community’s nineteenth-century public discussions. These two bound volumes come from the owner’s collection. Their original scans are preserved, including library stamps, damaged edges and annotations.[1][2]
02BOUND VOLUMES
342SCANNED SPREADS / IMAGES
1891–931298–1299 BANGABDA
A few places to begin
Inside the journal
Science, society and debate
Electricity, poetry, an association, a press company and responses to social essays appear in one contents list.
Explore the contents ↗Finding words for electricity
A science essay begins with a language problem: how to explain unfamiliar ideas to Bengali readers.
Read the complete English translation ↗A journal tells its own story
The second year opens with reflections on publication, difficulty and the hope of continuing.
Read the complete English translation ↗The digital reading room
Turn the pages.
Original scan · Select the image to enlarge it.
One scan usually contains two printed pages.
Selected scans have short English reading notes and links to the longer English translations. Each translation specifies the original pages included.
Unreviewed machine transcription
Letters, names, numbers and column order may be wrong. Consult the image before quoting. Missing search results do not prove a word is absent.
Bengali search uses unreviewed OCR. English search covers selected reading notes.
Open original Volume I PDF · 84 MB ↗Open original Volume II PDF · 243 MB ↗Download Volume I machine text ↓Download Volume II machine text ↓
How to read this archive
Scan numbers identify images inside the PDF. Printed page numbers belong to the journal and can be interrupted by covers or inserts. The reader uses scan numbers so a reference always opens the same image.
English reading notes distinguish a translated heading, a selected passage and an editorial paraphrase. Bengali OCR is machine-generated text for discovery; it has not been approved as a transcription. Damaged type, binding shadows and the printed columns require comparison with the image.
Dates: 1298 Bangabda spans parts of 1891 and 1892; 1299 spans 1892 and 1893. The journal’s early headers include Baishakh 1298, corresponding approximately to April–May 1891. A year label should not be mistaken for a complete issue catalogue.[1][2]
Now available in EnglishRead the complete Representative’s account of itself and electricity essay, or the first editorial’s opening-page extract. The translations collection also includes historical book prefaces and a contemporary review, with source images and text downloads.
Contributors visible in the journal
The first volume’s contents records the following writers and contributions. These are credits in a publication; they do not independently establish the contributors’ caste, family relationships or full biographies.[1]
Kunjabihari Biswas
Listed with an M.A. beside Tadit (“Electricity”), beginning on printed p. 12. His essay opens with the challenge of scientific writing in Bengali.
Read the opening ↗Dhanakrishna Sen
Named beside Ami Ke? (“Who am I?”) and Ke Bara? (“Who is great?”) in the contents. These titles are translated as reading aids.
See the contents ↗Kumudbihari Samanta
One of the names listed alongside Ugrakshatriya Samiti. The credit establishes a connection with this contribution; the exact division of authorship needs the articles themselves.
See the printed credit ↗Ashutosh Bandyopadhyay
The Volume I imprint names him as printer, acting on the editor’s instruction. This corrects the earlier translation’s reading of the name as “Shrimatosh.”
See the imprint ↗The earlier translation assigned the surname “Nandi” to a contributor named Haridas. The contents scan does not support that reading securely; his English surname is withheld until another clear occurrence can be checked.
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Notes & sources
- Ugrakshatriya-Pratinidhi, Volume I (1298 Bangabda). Owner-supplied PDF. Complete electricity essay (printed pp. 12–23) and first editorial’s opening-page extract translated against the scans; selected reading notes also available. Bengali OCR remains unreviewed. Source details
- Ugrakshatriya-Pratinidhi, Volume II (1299 Bangabda). Owner-supplied PDF. Complete Pratinidhir Atmakatha (printed pp. 1–5) translated against the scans. Bengali OCR remains unreviewed; most of the volume is not translated. Source details