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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox magazine<br />
| title = Awadh Punch<br />
| image_file = Avadh Punch cover.jpg<br />
| image_caption = Cover page, 1878<br />
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| frequency = Weekly<br />
| language = [[Urdu]]<br />
| category = Satire, comedy<br />
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| editor_title = Editor<br />
| founder = [[Sajjad Husain]]<br />
| founded = 1877<br />
| lastdate = 1937<br />
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| country = [[India]]<br />
| based = Lucknow<br />
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The '''''Awadh Punch''''' (or '''''Oudh Punch''''') was an [[Urdu]] [[satire|satirical]] [[Weekly newspaper|weekly]] published from [[Lucknow]], [[India]] from 1877 to 1937,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wheeler|first1=Ryan|title=Urdu Punch|url=https://blogs.harvard.edu/houghton/2014/11/25/urdu-punch/|website=Houghton Library Blog|publisher=[[Harvard University]]|accessdate=11 February 2018|date=25 November 2014}}</ref> It was launched on Jan 16, 1877 and was founded and edited by Munshi [[Sajjad Husain]].<ref name=dawn /> It was modeled on ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', a London-based weekly magazine from which it also derived its name.<ref>{{cite thesis|last=Dubrow|first=Jennifer|title=From newspaper sketch to "novel": The writing and reception of "Fasana-e Azad" in North India, 1878–1880|year=2011|url=https://search.proquest.com/openview/8a00b19503d55244286469b43c98f453|publisher=Departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago|type=PhD thesis|page=vi}}</ref> Some of its notable contributors were [[Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar]], Syed Mohammad Azad, Tribhavan Nath Hijr, Machchu Baig Sitam Zareef, Javala Prashad Barq, Ahmed Ali Shauq Qidvai and [[Akbar Allahabadi]].<ref name=dawn /> The paper was one of the first to publish [[political satire]], especially protesting [[British Raj|British rule]], in [[India]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hasan|first1=Mushirul|title=Political satire in modern India|url=http://www.thehindu.com/lr/2003/04/06/stories/2003040600010100.htm|accessdate=11 February 2018|website=[[The Hindu]]|date=6 April 2003}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref name="Dubrow2018">{{cite book|last=Dubrow|first=Jennifer|title=Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia|url=https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/523583|date=October 2018|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-7270-0|chapter=Chapter 1 : Printing the Cosmopolis|chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9780824876692/9780824876692-005/9780824876692-005.xml|page=17|via=[[De Gruyter]]}} {{Subscription required}}</ref> It had to be closed down in 1912 but was revived in 1916 and it continued till, at least, Dec 1937.<ref name=dawn>{{Cite web|last=Parekh|first=Rauf|date=2019-08-27|title=Literary Notes: Oudh Punch: the social, political, linguistic and literary stance|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1501823|access-date=2020-12-18|website=DAWN.COM|language=en}}</ref> <br />
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[[Category:Weekly magazines published in India]]<br />
[[Category:1877 establishments in India]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian satire]]<br />
[[Category:Defunct magazines published in India]]</div>CleanupBot