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'''''Balsakha'''''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jamunā|first1=Ke E.|last2=Division|first2=India Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Publications|title=Children's literature in Indian languages|publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India|pages=65, 66, 81|url=https://books.google.com/?id=g45NAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Balsakha%22&dq=%22Balsakha%22|accessdate=4 June 2016|language=en|year=1982}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kumar|first1=Krishna|title=Political agenda of education : a study of colonialist and nationalist ideas|date=2005|publisher=SAGE Publ.|location=Thousand Oaks, Calif.|isbn=978-0-7619-3316-8|page=146|edition=2nd}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Children's Literature In Hindi|url=http://goodbooks.in/node/3742#.VxjQylIggZM|website=Goodbooks.in|accessdate=21 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423040915/http://goodbooks.in/node/3742#.VxjQylIggZM|archive-date=23 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> was one of the most popular children magazines in [[Hindi]]. In the year 1917, the Indian Press Prayag started publication of Balasakha magazine. This magazine was the most popular of its time. Balsakha was published for more than 53 years and this magazine influenced the child readers and prepared a good number of child writers also.

==History and profile==
''Balsakha'' was first published in 1917<ref name=kum>{{cite book|author=Krishna Kumar|title=Politics of Education in Colonial India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsNcCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT154|accessdate=16 October 2016|date=12 August 2015|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-32562-8|page=154}}</ref> by Chintamani Ghosh,<ref>{{cite news|title='प्रकाशन में बाबू चिंतामणि ने दिया अविस्मरणीय योगदान' 12716123|url=http://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/allahabad-city-12716123.html|accessdate=21 April 2016|work=jagran}}</ref> the founder of Indian Press Prayag ([[Allahabad]]).He also published [[saraswati (magazine)]]. The first editor of ''Balsakha'' was Pandit Badrinath Bhatt and later on [[Thakur Srinath Singh]] edited the magazine for many years.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Book Review|publisher=C. Chari for Perspective Publications|url=https://books.google.com/?id=lnksAAAAYAAJ&q=srinath+singh&dq=srinath+singh|accessdate=18 June 2016|language=en|year=2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Data India|publisher=Press Institute of India|url=https://books.google.com/?id=rvhtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Balsakha%22&dq=%22Balsakha%22|accessdate=18 June 2016|language=en|year=1996}}</ref> It was published on a monthly basis.<ref name=kum/>

''Balsakha'' is still remembered in Hindi children's literature.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Chandra|first1=Nandini|title=The Pedagogic Imperative of Travel Writing in the Hindi World: Children's Periodicals (1920–1950)|journal=South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies|date=1 August 2007|volume=30|issue=2|pages=293–325|doi=10.1080/00856400701499250|issn=0085-6401}}</ref> ''Balsakha'' was published monthly for more than 50 years.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kumar|first1=Krishna|title=Politics of Education in Colonial India|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317325628|url=https://books.google.com/?id=ZsNcCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT154&lpg=PT154&dq=balsakha,+magazine#v=onepage&q=balsakha%2C%20magazine&f=false|accessdate=21 April 2016|language=en|date=2015-08-12}}</ref> Many distinct and famous personalities of that era had contributed their work towards children literature in ''Balsakha''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Birla|first1=K.K.|title=Partner In Progress Selected Speechs And Writings Of K.k.birla|date=1994|publisher=Hindustan Times|location=New Delhi|pages=5, 7|url=http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/132879|accessdate=28 August 2016}}{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ''Balsakha'' was also subscribed by library of various states and juvenile jail of then British India.<ref>{{cite book|title=Annual-Report-On-The-Administration-Of-The-Shahpura-State|pages=19|url=http://www.dli.ernet.in/bitstream/handle/2015/35925/Annual-Report-On-The-Administration-Of-The-Shahpura-State.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|accessdate=12 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112144740/http://www.dli.ernet.in/bitstream/handle/2015/35925/Annual-Report-On-The-Administration-Of-The-Shahpura-State.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|archive-date=12 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Mental-Health-Series-No-I-Psychiatric-Approach-To-Institutional-Treatment-Of-Delinquency|pages=18|url=http://www.dli.ernet.in/bitstream/handle/2015/104950/Mental-Health-Series-No-I-Psychiatric-Approach-To-Institutional-Treatment-Of-Delinquency.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|accessdate=12 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112143647/http://www.dli.ernet.in/bitstream/handle/2015/104950/Mental-Health-Series-No-I-Psychiatric-Approach-To-Institutional-Treatment-Of-Delinquency.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|archive-date=12 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> For publishing the life character of various national leaders, the Punjab Text Book Committee of pre-independent India stopped subscribing ''Balsakha''.<ref>{{cite web|title=saraswati.pdf|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_qRXiiZknfoeUhIazRRWVRmMjQ/view|website=Google Docs|accessdate=12 November 2016}}</ref> Publisher and editors of ''Balsakha'' and other contemporary magazines assumed children as an independent unit and carried on their work towards children literature. The literary work of these editors was focused on childhood. That is why ''Balsakha'' remained popular with children for a long time.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kumar|first1=Prof.Krishn|title=shiksha vimarsh(JUL-DEC 2005)|url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_qRXiiZknfocUFxVmJSQ0NXdUU|website=Google Docs|publisher=Digantar Shiksha avam Khel Kood Samiti|accessdate=14 January 2017}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:1917 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Defunct magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Hindi-language magazines]]
[[Category:Children's magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Monthly magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1917]]
[[Category:Magazines with year of disestablishment missing]]

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