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'''Indian blogosphere''' (or '''IndiBlogosphere''') is the online predominantly community of [[India]]n [[weblog]]s that is part of the larger [[blogosphere]].<ref>Hindi Blogging Ka Itihas, Author- [[Ravindra Prabhat]], Publisher-Hindi Sahitya Niketan, Bijnor, India, Year- 2011, p. 180, {{ISBN|978-93-80916-14-9}}</ref>

==History==
In India, like elsewhere, blogging gained momentum in the early years of the twenty-first century. However, it was limited mostly to English. With the advent of [[unicode]] when typing in [[Languages of India|Indian languages]] on computer became possible, blogs in Indian languages started to be written. Initially due to a lack of [[Indic scripts|Indic]] typing tools, the early Indian blogosphere was small. Greater awareness and availability of Indic typing tools led to rapid growth in blogs written in Indian languages.<ref>Hindi Bloging : Abhivyakti ki Nayi Kranti, Editor- Awinash Bachaspati/[[Ravindra Prabhat]], Publisher-Hindi Sahitya Niketan, Bijnor, India, Year- 2011,Pages: 376,{{ISBN|978-93-80916-05-7}}</ref>

An impressionistic survey of Indian [English] blogosphere in 2019 says money making is still not the primary goal of most Indian bloggers. Most bloggers open multiple blogs on free blogging platforms and lose interest over time; only a small portion of bloggers sustain their blog beyond initial spurt.<ref>[https://www.indiantopblogs.com/2019/06/2019-indian-blogs.html 2019 Indian blogosphere survey]</ref>

==Indic language typing tools==
Although the standard keyboard of Indian languages is [[Inscript|InScript]] yet Phonetic transliteration based typing became most popular for Unicode Indic typing in spite of its drawbacks. The two most popular phonetic typing tools of old times are "Indic IME" and "BarahaIME". In 2007, with the advent of the [[Google Indic Transliteration]] tool in its blogging service [[Blogger (service)|Blogger]], it became the tool of choice for new bloggers because it is dictionary based and does not need a learning curve.

==Blog platform==
India has over 20 [[Languages with official status in India|official languages]] and yet most Indian blogs are still written in English. However, a large number of blogs are created in Hindi and other Indian languages. These blogs are written as stand-alone blogs or on popular blogging platforms.
Among Indian blogs written in languages other than English, Google's [[Blogger (service)|Blogger]] is the most popular among Indian bloggers because it supports [[Indic Unicode]] and has rich features. In 2007, the Indic language typing tool [[Google Indic Transliteration]] was also integrated into it, so no separate Indic typing tool was needed. Blogspot (Blogger) also provides the facility of custom domain redirects such as .com, in and others. Earlier there was only http:// for custom domain but now there is https:// facility for custom domain also which enhance security features. There is also [[.বাংলা]] domain for [[Bengali language|Bengali]] sites.

In addition to this, [[WordPress]] being supporting [[Indic Unicode]], is most popular among those who host their blog on their own domain. Though since every website uses [[UTF-8]] encoding, most languages are supported by default everywhere.

==See also==
*[[Blogosphere]]
*[[Hindi Blogosphere]]
*[[Online journalism in India]]
*[[Tamil Blogosphere]]
*[[Webcomics in India]]

==References==
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