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{{Infobox magazine
| title = Buddhiprakash
| logo =
| logo_size =
| image_file = Buddhiprakash magazine cover.jpeg
| image_size =
| image_caption = Cover page, January 2017 issue
| editor = * Madhusoodan Parekh
* Ramesh Shah
| editor_title = Current editors
|editor2 = [[Dalpatram]]
| editor_title2 = First editor
| previous_editor = * Hiralal T. Parekh
* [[Rasiklal Parikh]]
* [[Umashankar Joshi]]
* [[Keshavram Kashiram Shastri|K. K. Shastri]]
* [[Bhogilal Sandesara]]
* Yashvant Shukla
* [[Nagindas Parekh]]
* [[Hariprasad Shastri]]
| staff_writer =
| photographer =
| category = Literature, sociology, politics, science
| frequency = [[wikt:Monthly|Monthly]]
| format = Print
| circulation =
| publisher = [[Gujarat Vidhya Sabha]]
| paid_circulation =
| unpaid_circulation =
| circulation_year =
| total_circulation =
| founder =
| founded = 1850
| firstdate = {{Start date and age|df=y|1850|5|15}}
| country = India
| based = [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]]
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
| website =
| issn = 2347-2448
| oclc = 6335883
}}

'''''Buddhiprakash''''' ({{lang-gu|બુદ્ધિપ્રકાશ}}, English: Light of Knowledge) is a Gujarati language magazine published by [[Gujarat Vidhya Sabha]] (formerly known as Gujarat Vernacular Society), [[Ahmedabad]], India.

== History ==
[[File:Buddhi Prakash Gujarati periodical 1850.jpg|thumb|Cover page of issue of 7 March 1854|left]]
''Buddhiprakash'' was established in 1850<ref name="ArweckBullivant2016">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shastri |first=Parth |url=http://m.timesofindia.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}}</ref><ref name=BP/><ref name=GS/>

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]], [[Keshavram Kashiram Shastri|K. K. Shastri]], [[Bhogilal Sandesara]], Yashvant Shukla, [[Nagindas Parekh]] and [[Hariprasad Shastri]]. It is now edited by Madhusoodan Parekh and Ramesh Shah.<ref name="BP">{{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}}</ref><ref name="GS">{{cite encyclopedia|title=બુદ્ધિપ્રકાશ|encyclopedia=ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યકોશ (Encyclopedia of Gujarati Literature)|publisher=[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]|location=Ahmedabad|volume=Vol. 3|pages=421–422|language=Gujarati|trans-title=Buddhiprakash|editor=Chandrakant Topiwala|editor-link=Chandrakant Topiwala|author=Ramesh Dave|year=1996}}</ref><ref name="Vasunia2013">{{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}}</ref>

== Content ==
''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.<ref name=BP/><ref name=GS/>

==See also==
* [[List of Gujarati-language magazines]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:1850 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Literary magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1850]]
[[Category:Gujarati-language magazines]]
[[Category:Mass media in Ahmedabad]]

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>Tom.Reding at 16:48, 24 December 2020