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{{Infobox magazine<br />
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| image_file = Kumar magazine cover.jpeg<br />
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| image_caption = Cover page, October 2016<br />
|category=Cultural magazine<br />
| editor = [[Dhiru Parikh]]<br />
| editor_title = Chief editor<br />
|editor2 = [[Praful Raval]]<br />
| editor_title2 = Co-editor<br />
|founder= [[Ravishankar Raval]]<br />
|frequency=Monthly<br />
|publisher=Kumar Trust<br />
|firstdate=January 1924<br />
|country=India<br />
|based= Ahmedabad<br />
|language=[[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]<br />
|oclc =5107841<br />
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'''''Kumar''''' ({{lang-gu|કુમાર}}) is a Gujarati literary magazine founded by Gujarati artist and author [[Ravishankar Raval]] in 1924.<ref name=div>{{cite web|url=http://www.divyabhaskar.co.in/news/MAG-gujarat-artguru-autobiography-1366156.html|title=એકાણુ વર્ષના જુવાન ‘કુમાર’ને અમરત્વનું વરદાન આપો- ૨|date=14 September 2015|work=Divyabhaskar|access-date=16 February 2016}}</ref> It is now edited by [[Dhiru Parikh]]. The headquarters is in [[Ahmedabad]], Gujarat, India.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Anil Relia|author2=Ratan Parimoo|title=The Indian Portrait - 5: Colonial influence on Raja Ravi Varma and his Contemporaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W06OBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA132|accessdate=17 February 2017|date=18 November 2014|publisher=Archer Art Gallery|page=132|id=GGKEY:CKAH1ERUGDU}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
[[File:Kumar Trust.jpg|thumb|Kumar office, known as "Kumar Karyalaya" is located in Raipur area of [[Ahmedabad]]]]<br />
''Kumar'' was founded by Ravishankar Raval in Ahmedabad in 1924.<ref name="mea"/> The magazine was started as an avant-garde cultural publication.<ref name="mea">{{cite web|title=Ravishankar Raval|url=http://meaus.com/04-ravishankar-raval.htm|work=Meaus|accessdate=17 February 2017}}</ref> Bachubhai Ravat served as [[editor-in-chief]] from 1924 to 1942 with him. After the death of Ravishankar Raval, Bachubhai served as editor until 1980. After the death of Bachubhai in 1980, Biharibhai Tank became the editor of magazine. In 1987, it was closed.<ref name=div/> After three years, in 1990, under the editorship of Dhiru Parikh, the publication resumed.<ref name=div/> [[Praful Raval]] serves as the co-editor of the magazine.<br />
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In April 2011, the 1000th issue of magazine was released.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.divyabhaskar.co.in/news/MAG-gurjarratna-biren-kothari-kumar-magazine-2193512.html|title=ગુણવત્તા અને મૂલ્યોથી સભર માસિકની ‘કુમાર’કથા}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Kumar Gold Medal]]<br />
* [[List of Gujarati-language magazines]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Internet Archive author|sname=Kumar Issue}}<br />
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[[Category:Literary magazines published in India]]<br />
[[Category:Monthly magazines published in India]]<br />
[[Category:Magazines established in 1924]]<br />
[[Category:Gujarati-language magazines]]<br />
[[Category:Cultural magazines]]<br />
[[Category:Mass media in Ahmedabad]]<br />
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