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{{Short description|Urdu language newspaper}}
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| chief_editor = Lala Mulkraj Saraf
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'''''Ranbir''''' ({{langx|ur|رنبیر}}) was a daily [[Urdu language]] newspaper published from [[Jammu]], India.<ref name="d4">New Book Society of India, New Delhi. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Rf8_AAAAIAAJ Indian Book Trade and Library Directory]''. New Delhi: New Book Society of India, 1950. p. 478</ref><ref name="a1"/> It was the first daily newspaper in [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]].

==Founding==
''Ranbir'' was founded and edited by Lala Mulkraj Saraf.<ref name="a1"/><ref name="g8">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=HiFuAAAAMAAJ J & K Yearbook & Who's Who]''. Jammu: Rabir Publications, 1987. p. 4</ref> He had previously worked as sub-editor of [[Lala Lajpat Rai]]'s nationalist organ ''Bande Mataram''.<ref name="g8"/> Saraf had negotiated for some time to obtain the permission from the Maharaja [[Pratap Singh of Jammu and Kashmir]] to publish ''Ranbir'' as a statewide weekly.<ref name="b2"/><ref name="e5"/>

The newspaper was named after Maharaja [[Ranbir Singh (Maharaja)|Ranbir Singh]].<ref name="b2">Taseer, C. Bilqees. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=KNpHAAAAMAAJ The Kashmir of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah]''. Lahore: Ferozsons, 1986. pp. 225–226</ref> The first issue of ''Ranbir'' was published on 24 June 1924.<ref name="b2"/><ref name="e5">Kapur, Manohar Lal. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ik1uAAAAMAAJ Maharaja Hari Singh, 1895–1961]''. New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications, 1995. p. 107</ref> ''Ranbir'' would become the first daily newspaper in [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref name="a1">Das, Sisir Kumar. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&pg=PA589 A History of Indian Literature. 2.]''. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1995. p. 589</ref> The newspaper was printed at the Government Press.<ref name="c3"/> Instantly after its foundation, the paper gained a wide readership in the state.<ref name="e5"/>

==1930 ban==
In May 1930 Maharaja [[Hari Singh]] issued a ban on ''Ranbir'' (accusing it of 'subversive propaganda'), following an article about an agitation in Jammu related to the arrest of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] in [[British India]].<ref name="b2"/><ref name="c3">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=XQYzAQAAIAAJ Journalism]'', Vol. 1–4. Department of Journalism, University of the Punjab, 1968. p. 34</ref><ref name="g8"/><ref name="h9">Ravinderjit Kaur. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=fLCCbohBKzcC&pg=PA121 Political Awakening in Kashmir]''. New Delhi: APH Pub. Corp, 1996. p. 121-122</ref> The Maharaja argued that ''Ranbir'' had, in its 7 May 1930 (Baisakh 25, 1987) issue exaggerated the participation figures in the Jammu protest and that the newspaper had false alluded that the Maharaja himself would have supported the protests.<ref name="h9"/> The newspaper was allowed to resume publication in November 1931.<ref name="b2"/> This period was marked by increased pressure towards responsible government in Jammu and Kashmir, a movement that ''Ranbir'' supported.<ref name="g8"/>

==1947 ban and later years==
The newspaper was banned in June 1947, following having demanded accession to [[India]] and urged for the release of [[Sheikh Abdullah]].<ref name="f7">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=TMxJzb7N_8wC&pg=PA4 Epilogue]'', Vol 4, Issue 11. p. 4</ref> The ban was eventually lifted and ''Ranbir'' re-appeared in September 1947. In the following years ''Ranbir'' was an important mouthpiece of the anti-Pakistani tendency in Jammu and Kashmir.<ref name="g8"/> ''Ranbir'' was finally closed down on 18 May 1950.<ref name="b2"/>

==References==
{{Portal|Journalism|India}}
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[[Category:1924 establishments in India]]
[[Category:1950 disestablishments in India]]
[[Category:Defunct Urdu-language newspapers published in India]]
[[Category:Daily newspapers published in India]]
[[Category:Banned newspapers]]
[[Category:Defunct daily newspapers]]

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