[2] In 1881, Upendranath Mukhopadhyay started the Basumati Sahitya Mandir with the blessings of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa as a publishing house in Beadon Street.
In 1895, inspired by Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya started publishing Weekly Basumati, a digest of the news from all over the world.
It was acquired by Ashoke Kumar Sen, the then Union Law Minister in 1962.
Four years later in 1974, the publication house was acquired by the Government of West Bengal.
In September 1992, the Basumati stopped its operations in Kolkata and moved to Siliguri.