Buddhiprakash
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{{Infobox magazine
| title = {{Lang|gu-latn|Buddhiprakash}}
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| image_file = Buddhiprakash magazine cover.jpeg
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| image_caption = Cover page, January 2017 issue
| editor = * Kumarpal Desai
- Rajendra Patel
- Subhash Brahmbhatt
| editor_title = Current editors
|editor2 = Dalpatram
| editor_title2 = First editor
| previous_editor = * Hiralal T. Parekh
- Rasiklal Parikh
- Umashankar Joshi
- K. K. Shastri
- Bhogilal Sandesara
- Yashvant Shukla
- Nagindas Parekh
- Hariprasad Shastri
- Madhusoodan Parekh
- Ramesh Shah
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| category = Literature, sociology, politics, science
| frequency = Monthly
| format = Print
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| publisher = Gujarat Vidya Sabha
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| founded = 1850
| firstdate = {{Start date and age|df=y|1850|5|15}}
| country = India
| language = Gujarati
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| issn = 2347-2448
| oclc = 6335883
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{{Lang|gu-latn|Buddhiprakash}} ({{langx|gu|બુદ્ધિપ્રકાશ}}, English: Light of Knowledge) is a Gujarati language magazine published by Gujarat Vidya Sabha (formerly known as Gujarat Vernacular Society), Ahmedabad, India.
History
File:Buddhi Prakash Gujarati periodical 1850.jpg
{{Lang|gu-latn|Buddhiprakash}} was established in 1850{{cite book|author1=Elisabeth Arweck|author2=Stephen Bullivant|author3=Lois Lee|title=Secularity and Non-Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n9q_CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT59|accessdate=8 February 2017|date=16 March 2016|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-134-91065-6|page=59}} as a lithotype fortnightly. The first issue of the magazine was published on 15 May 1850 from Ahmedabad. It had 16 pages with articles on 26 subjects ranging from science and technology to philosophy. It cost 1.5 Anna to readers per issue then. After one and a half years of publication, it was closed.{{cite news |last=Shastri |first=Parth |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Gujarat-Vernacular-Society-instrumental-in-revival-of-language/articleshow/27927564.cms |title=Gujarat Vernacular Society instrumental in revival of language |website=The Times of India|date= 26 December 2013 |access-date=8 February 2017}}
Later, in April 1854, with the help of Rao Bahadur Bhogilal Pranvallabhdas and under the guidance of T. B. Curtis, the headmaster of the Ahmedabad English school, it resumed publication. In 1855, on request of Alexander Kinloch Forbes, Dalpatram accepted to serve as the editor of the magazine and edited it until 1879. Later it was edited by Hiralal T. Parekh, Rasiklal Parikh, Umashankar Joshi, K. K. Shastri, Bhogilal Sandesara, Yashvant Shukla, Nagindas Parekh, Hariprasad Shastri, Madhusoodan Parekh and Ramesh Shah.{{cite book|title=સાહિત્યિક સામાયિકો: પરંપરા અને પ્રભાવ (Gujarati Literary Megazines: Tradition and Influence)|last=Vyas|first=Kishor|date=May 2012|publisher=Rannade Prakashan|editor-last=Mehta|editor-first=Hasit|location=Ahmedabad|pages=48–49|language=Gujarati}}{{cite encyclopedia|title=બુદ્ધિપ્રકાશ|encyclopedia=ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યકોશ (Encyclopedia of Gujarati Literature)|publisher=Gujarati Sahitya Parishad|location=Ahmedabad|volume=3|pages=421–422|language=Gujarati|trans-title=Buddhiprakash|editor=Chandrakant Topiwala|editor-link=Chandrakant Topiwala|author=Ramesh Dave|year=1996}}{{cite book|author=Phiroze Vasunia|title=The Classics and Colonial India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezNoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA279|year=2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|location=United kingdom|isbn=978-0-19-162607-4|page=279}} Currently, the editors are Kumarpal Desai, Rajendra Patel and Subhash Brahmbhatt.{{Cite book|title=Samayik Kosh|publisher=Gurjar Sahitya Prakashan|isbn=978-93-94096-11-0|editor-last=Vyas|editor-first=Kishor|location=Ahmedabad|year=2022|pages=115–116|language=gu|script-title=gu:સામયિક કોશ}}
Content
{{Lang|gu-latn|Buddhiprakash}} was the leading magazine in the social reform era of Gujarat in the 19th century, advocating reforms in variety of fields. Apart from literature, it published articles in sociology, politics, religion, philosophy, zoology, botany, archeology, history, geography and economics. It occasionally published special issues. Dalpatram's work Dalpatpingal based on poetic metres was serialized in this magazine from 1855 to 1860.