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'''''Jnanasudha''''' (also spelled as '''''Gnansudha''''' or '''''Gyansudha''''') was a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] magazine that ran from 1892 to 1919, in which [[Ramanbhai Neelkanth]] edited.

==History==
''Jnanasudha'' began publishing weekly as an organization of Ahmedabad [[Prarthana Samaj]]. There are no surviving copies of the magazine before 1892, so the date of first publication is not traceable. It is certain that when the magazine was handed over to Ramanbhai Neelkanth in 1987, it published its newspaper weekly, and then monthly in January 1892.<ref name="Mehta2012">{{Cite book|title=Sāhityika Sāmayiko : Paramparā ane Prabhāva|publisher=Rannade Prakashan|isbn=978-93-82456-01-8|editor-last=Mehta|editor-first=Hasit|edition=1st|location=Ahmedabad|year=2012|pages=65–68|language=gu|script-title=gu:સાહિત્યિક સામયિકો : પરંપરા અને પ્રભાવ|trans-title=Literary Magazines : Tradition and Influence|oclc=824686453}}</ref><ref name="Thaker1996">{{Cite encyclopedia|last=Thaker|first=Dhirubhai|author-link=Dhirubhai Thaker|title=જ્ઞાનસુધા|encyclopedia=[[Gujarati Vishwakosh]]|volume=VII|editor-last=Thakar|editor-first=Dhirubhai|publisher=Gujarat Vishwakosh Trust|year=1996|edition=1st|oclc=164765976|location=Ahmedabad|pages=858|language=gu}}</ref>

Neelkanth was busy in the administration of Prarthana Samaj and in social reform activities, so he handed over the magazine to [[Jivanlal Amarshi Mehta]], a publisher who edited the magazine for one year. Then, the magazine was edited by Gatulal Gopilal Dhruv, a secretary of Prarthana Samaj, until it stopped publishing in 1919.<ref name="Mehta2012"/><ref name="Thaker1996"/>

==Contents==
Neelkanth used ''Jnanasudha'' to propound the religious principles of Prarthana Samaj, and resisted the superstitious beliefs and malpractices of Hindu society. With the exception of ''[[Raino Parvat]]'' (1914), most of Neelkanth's writings were published in this magazine. Neelkanth's only novel, ''[[Bhadrambhadra]]'' (1900), was first serialised in ''Jnanasudha'', starting in April 1892 and concluding in June 1900.<ref name="Mehta2012"/>

The debates between [[Manilal Dwivedi]] and Neelkanth on the subjects of [[Dvaita Vedanta|Dvaita]] (dualism) and [[Advaita Vedanta|Advaita]] (non-dualism) philosophy was carried in the pages of Manilal's [[Sudarshan (magazine)|Sudarshan]] and in ''Jnanasudha''. These debates are considered unparalleled in Gujarat's history of reflective literature.<ref name="Mehta2012"/><ref name="Thaker1996"/>

Other notable contributions to the magazine include Neelkanth's ''Kavitasiddhanta'' (Theory of Poetry), [[Kavi Kant|Kant]]'s critique of ''[[Siddhantasara]]'', [[Balwantray Thakore]]'s sonnets under the title ''Premno Divas'', [[Nhanalal]]'s poem ''Vasantotsav'', and the debate between [[Narsinhrao Divetia]] and [[Govardhanram Tripathi]] on Gujarati spellings.<ref name="Thaker1996"/>

[[Dhirubhai Thaker]] published ''Jnanasudha: Svadhyay ane Suchi'' in 1987, which is a critical and bibliographical study of writings published in ''Jnanasudha''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thaker |first=Dhirubhai |author-link=Dhirubhai Thaker |title=Jñānasudhā: Svādhyāya ane Sūci |trans-title=Bibliography of Material Published in Jnanasudha |script-title=gu:જ્ઞાનસુધા: સ્વાધ્યાય અને સૂચિ |language=gu |year=1987 |publisher=[[Gujarat Sahitya Academy]] |location=Gandhinagar |oclc=22112416}}</ref>

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

==References==
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[[Category:Monthly magazines published in India]]
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[[Category:Defunct magazines published in India]]

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