| Jagadananda Roy | |
|---|---|
 Jagadananda Roy | |
| Native name | জগদানন্দ রায |
| Born | (1869-09-18)18 September 1869 Krishnanagar, Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Nadia district, West Bengal) |
| Died | 25 June 1933(1933-06-25) (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 a 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).
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). 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.
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References
- 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.
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- 1869 births
- 1933 deaths
- 20th-century Bengalis
- 19th-century Bengalis
- Bengali Hindus
- Bengali-language science fiction writers
- Bengali-language novelists
- Academic staff of Visva-Bharati University
- Scholars from West Bengal
- People from Krishnagar
- People from Nadia district
- 19th-century Indian male writers
- 20th-century Indian male writers
- Indian science fiction writers
- Indian speculative fiction writers
- Indian male essayists
- 20th-century Indian essayists
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- Writers from British India