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'''''Deenbandhu''''', sometimes transliterated as '''''Dinbandhu''''' and spelled '''''Din Bandhu''''', was a weekly [[Marathi language|Marathi-language]] newspaper first published in [[Pune]], [[British India]] in January 1877.<ref>{{cite book |title=Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India |first=Rosalind |last=O'Hanlon |edition=Reprinted, revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-52152-308-0 |page=244 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kMrsTj1NeYC&pg=PA244}}</ref> It was the first newspaper in India to cater explicitly to the labouring people.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 |first=Prashant |last=Kidambi |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-35188-624-6 |page=271 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBKoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT271}}</ref> The weekly articulated the grievances of the peasants and workers.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tN_ZAAAAMAAJ&q=krishnarao+bhalekar|title=Social Reformers of Maharashtra|last=Phadke|first=Y. D.|date=1975|publisher=Maharashtra Information Centre|language=en}}</ref>

''Deenbandhu'' was founded by Krishnarao Pandurang Bhalekar (1850-1910)<ref>{{cite book |title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India |editor1-first=Nalini |editor1-last=Natarajan |editor2-first=Emmanuel Sampath |editor2-last=Nelson |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-31328-778-7 |page=214 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA214}}</ref> and served as an outlet for [[Jyotirao Phule|Jotirao Phule]]'s [[Satyashodhak Samaj]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency 1850-1935 |first=Neil |last=Charlesworth |edition=Revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-52152-640-1 |page=277 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jIbRhV00p6AC&pg=PA277}}</ref> Bhalekar was born in Bhamburde and came of a Mali family.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFY9fz68KEsC&dq=krishnarao+bhalekar+death&pg=PA133|title=Mahatma Jotirao Phooley: Father of the Indian Social Revolution|last=Keer|first=Dhananjay|date=1997|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7154-066-2|language=en}}</ref> Bhalekar ran Dinbandhu almost single-handedly till April 1880 after which the newspaper moved to Mumbai because of financial troubles. [[Narayan Meghaji Lokhande]], who had already been writing for it,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kMrsTj1NeYC&pg=PA247|title=Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India|last=O'Hanlon|first=Rosalind|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2002|isbn=978-0-52152-308-0|edition=Reprinted, revised|page=247}}</ref> edited the newspaper from Mumbai from 1880. Deenbandhu 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 (newspaper)|Kesari]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India |first=Rosalind |last=O'Hanlon |edition=Reprinted, revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-52152-308-0 |page=288 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kMrsTj1NeYC&pg=PA288}}</ref> Vasudeo Birje became the editor of this iconic newspaper in 1903 after he left Baroda and moved to Mumbai. After Birje's untimely death due to cholera, his wife [[Tanubai Birje]] took the responsibility of running the newspaper on her own. She was 32. Tanubai Birje edited Dinbandhu from 1908 till she died in 1913. According to Shriram Gundekar, Tanubai Birje is the first woman editor in the history of non-Brahmin journalism. It's possible that she was the first woman editor in Marathi journalism itself.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loksatta.com/lekha-news/tanubai-birje-woman-editor-in-marathi-1211612/|title=तानुबाई बिर्जे : शतकापूर्वीची मराठी स्त्री-संपादक|date=2016-03-06|website=Loksatta|language=mr-IN|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref>

While Lokhande published the ''Deenbandhu'' from [[Mumbai|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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Once the voice of Phule, Deenbandhu press rusting away into oblivion |first=Prasad |last=Joshi |date=22 September 2013 |work=The Indian Express |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/once-the-voice-of-phule-deenbandhu-press-rusting-away-into-oblivion/1172532/0 |accessdate=2017-07-20}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:1877 establishments in India]]
[[Category:1970s disestablishments in India]]
[[Category:Marathi-language newspapers]]
[[Category:Newspapers published in Mumbai]]
[[Category:Jyotirao Phule]]

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