The Inquilab

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The Inquilab
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatPrint
Owner(s)Jagran Prakashan Limited
PublisherJagran Prakashan Limited
EditorShakeel Shamsi (North), Shahid Latif (Mumbai)
Founded1938
LanguageUrdu


The Inquilab is an Urdu-language daily newspaper published in India.[1] It is owned by the Jagran Prakashan Limited, which also publishes Dainik Jagran.[2][3] In 2017 it claimed a circulation of 127,255.[citation needed] It was founded by Abdul Hamid Ansari in 1938 as an underground newspaper during India's freedom movement against British.[4][2]

In 2010, Jagran Prakashan acquired Midday group, the parent company of Inquilab. While originally published from Mumbai, Inquilab expanded under its new ownership in northern parts of India, and overtook Rashtriya Sahara as the most read Urdu newspaper.[2]

References[edit]

  1. Sayed, Nazia; Hakim, Sharmin (12 September 2016). Six Minutes of Terror: The Untold Story of the 7/11 Mumbai Train Blasts. Penguin UK. ISBN 9789386057525.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Azam, Shireen. "Why the Hindu nationalist Jagran group runs the Urdu daily Inquilab". The Caravan. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  3. "Barelvi – Deobandi unity under the scanner of RSS think tank | The Siasat Daily". www.siasat.com. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  4. "Khaled Ansari: A journey from Inquilab to MiD Day". Arab News. 12 April 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2016.