Background
His father, Abhay Charan Mitra was a resident of Howrah, West Bengal.
His father, Abhay Charan Mitra was a resident of Howrah, West Bengal.
He spent his childhood in dire poverty. In his teen-hood, he joined a press as a compositor. Later he became teacher at a junior school in Dhaka.
At the age of 21, his first poem was published in 1858 in the Sambad Probhakar.
In the last phase of his life, Mitra was mainly a journalist, editor and publisher. He published the first newspaper from Dhaka: monthly Kavita Kushumabali(1960).
Weekly Dhaka Darpan(1963) was the first weekly published from Dhaka. Monthly Mitra Prokash (1870), which is said to be one of the best periodicals published from Dhaka in the 19th century was published and edited by Harish Chandra Mitra.