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'''''Dnyanodaya''''' is a [[Marathi language|Marathi]] periodical published by the American Marathi Mission, a [[Protestant]] missionary group.

==History==
The magazine was first published in 1842 from the American Marathi mission's headquarters in [[Ahmadnagar]] in present day Indian state of [[Maharashtra]]. In early years it was published weekly but has since been turned into a monthly. The magazine included essays on Christianity, and attacks on Hindu superstitions.<ref name="O'Hanlon2002">{{cite book|author=Rosalind O'Hanlon|title=Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kMrsTj1NeYC&pg=PA66|date=22 August 2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52308-0|pages=66–67}}</ref> The magazine also had articles on secular subjects such as medicine, geography and natural history. Through the secular subjects, the magazine wanted to portray scientific world view, material development, and secular values of the Western nations with that of Christian religion.<ref name="Kanjamala2014">{{cite book|author=Augustine Kanjamala|title=The Future of Christian Mission in India: Toward a New Paradigm for the Third Millennium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NweQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR7|date=21 August 2014|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|isbn=978-1-62032-315-1|pages=69–70}}</ref> The magazine devoted several articles on criticizing Hindu caste system and the brahmin's role in perpetuating inequality. r <ref name="Souza1994">{{cite book|author1=Teotonio R. De Souza (Editor)|author2=Adi H. Doctor (Author)|title=Discoveries, Missionary Expansion, and Asian Cultures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtf1eRE8FC8C&pg=PA105|year=1994|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-7022-497-6|pages=105–111}}</ref> Marathi social reformer [[Jyotiba Phule]] was an early subscriber of the magazine. He borrowed heavily from Christian missionaries in his rhetoric against orthodox Hinduism.The magazine also gave platform to Phule's polemics on brahmin dominated Hindu society of that era.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Deshpande |first1=G. P. |title=Rajwade's Weltanschauung and German Thought |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |date=1992 |volume=27 |issue=43/44 |pages=2361–2363 |jstor=4399063 }}</ref><ref name="Culture2006">{{cite book|author1=V.R. Mehta (editor)|author2=Thomas Pantham (editor)|author3=G.P. Deshpande (author)|title=Political Ideas in Modern India: Thematic Explorations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJejtAaonsEC&pg=PA110|date=17 April 2006|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3420-2|page=113}}</ref> In the 1880s and 1890s, the magazine published views which were critical of the opinions of the christian convert [[Pandita Ramabai]].<ref>Kosambi, Meera. “Indian Response to Christianity, Church and Colonialism: Case of Pandita Ramabai.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 27, no. 43/44, 1992, pp. WS61–WS71. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4399059. Accessed 9 Oct. 2020.</ref>

==Notable Editors==
Henry Balentine edited the periodical from 1842 to 1845 and again from 1858 to 1865. Other American missionaries who edited the Marathi periodical for many years included Robert Wilson Hume, Dr Samuel Fairback, Dr Allen Hazen, Charles Park, Edward Hume, Robert Hume and Justin E Abbot. Shahu Daji Kukade was the first Indian editor of the periodical from 1867 to 1872.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} Veteran Marathi poet and Christian convert, [[Narayan Waman Tilak]] was a frequent contributor to the magazine and became the magazine editor in 1912.<ref name="Richard1998">{{cite book|author=H. L. Richard|title=Following Jesus in the Hindu Context: The Intriguing Implications of N.V. Tilak's Life and Thought|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liZGQktZI0gC&pg=PR8|year=1998|publisher=William Carey Library|isbn=978-0-87808-288-9|page=48}}</ref> The magazine was later edited by Devdatta Tilak and Bhaskar Pandurang Hiwale, founder of [[Ahmednagar College]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://camilpark.blogspot.com/2017/06/dnyanodaya-monthly-enters-175th-year.html|title=Dnyanodaya monthly enters 175th year|last=Parkhe|first=Camil|date=2017-05-31|website=camilpark.blogspot.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-01-26}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Marathi Christians]]

==References==
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