Deenbandhu

Deenbandhu, sometimes transliterated as Dinbandhu and spelled Din Bandhu, was a weekly Marathi-language newspaper first published in Pune, British India in January 1877.[1] It was the first newspaper in India to cater explicitly for the labouring people.[2]

Deenbandhu was founded by Jyotirao Phule and K. P. Bhalekar[3] and it served as an outlet for Phule's Satyashodhak Samaj.[4] It was edited by Narayan Meghaji Lokhande, Marathi who had already been writing for it,[5] from 1880 and was selling 1650 copies per week in 1884, thus making it the second-highest circulation Marathi or Anglo-Marathi newspaper in Bombay Presidency, after Kesari.[6]

While Lokhande published the Deenbandhu from Bombay, Vithhal Marutrao Nawle, an admirer of Phule, bought the rights to publish an edition in Pune. He imported a printing press from Ohio that continued to produce the newspaper until it ceased publication in the 1970s. That press still existed in Pune in 2013 and was still owned by the Nawle family. however, it was in a state of considerable disrepair and decay. The state government was considering whether it could be preserved.[7]

References

  1. ↑ O'Hanlon, Rosalind (2002). Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India (Reprinted, revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-52152-308-0.
  2. ↑ Kidambi, Prashant (2016). The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920. Routledge. p. 271. ISBN 978-1-35188-624-6.
  3. ↑ Natarajan, Nalini; Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath, eds. (1996). Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-31328-778-7.
  4. ↑ Charlesworth, Neil (2002). Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency 1850-1935 (Revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-52152-640-1.
  5. ↑ O'Hanlon, Rosalind (2002). Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India (Reprinted, revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-52152-308-0.
  6. ↑ O'Hanlon, Rosalind (2002). Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India (Reprinted, revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-52152-308-0.
  7. ↑ Joshi, Prasad (22 September 2013). "Once the voice of Phule, Deenbandhu press rusting away into oblivion". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
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