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List of Marathi-language newspapers

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The Marathi language has a long history of literature and culture. The first Marathi newspaper, Darpan, was started on 6 January 1832 by Balshastri Jambhekar. The paper was bilingual fortnightly also published in English as The Bombay Darpan and stopped publishing in 1840.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XBU6pN7toHsC&pg=PA57 | title=Mass Communication In India: A Sociological Perspective | publisher=Sage | author=J V Vilanilam | year=2005 | pages=57 | isbn=9780761933724 |accessdate=17 December 2015}}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2O76-0buuUC&dq=Darpan+marathi+newspaper&pg=PA165 | title=The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 | publisher=Ashgate Publishing | author=Prashant Kidambi | year=2007 | pages=165, 172 | isbn=9780754656128 |accessdate=17 December 2015}} Founded in 1881 by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the daily Kesari was a prominent newspaper of the pre-Independence era with a large readership. It claimed to have circulation of 3500 within two years of establishment and reached up to 22,000 during 1908.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATq1nRGNF0QC&pg=PA210 | title=Language Politics, Elites, and the Public Sphere | publisher=Orient Blackswan | author=Veena Naregal | year=2001 | pages=210 | isbn=9788178240145 |accessdate=17 December 2015}} Narayan Meghaji Lokhande's Marathi daily Din Bandhu, which focused on social causes of labour class, was the second largest circulation in Bombay Presidency with 1650 copies a week in 1884.

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