Matwālā was a biweekly Hindi-language literary and political magazine that existed between 1923 - 1930. The magazine was based in Calcutta.

History and profile edit

Matwālā was established in 1923.[1] The magazine was headquartered in Calcutta.[1] The founder of the literary and political magazine was Seth Mahadev Prasad.[2] The first editor was Suryakant Tripathi.[1] It had a nationalist political view and satirical and comical tone.[1] One of the contributors was Bhagat Singh.[3] Matwālā folded in 1930.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d R. Vanita; S. Kidwai (11 September 2000). Same-Sex Love in India: Readings in Indian Literature. Springer. p. 246. ISBN 978-1-137-05480-7.
  2. ^ Sheldon Pollock; Arvind Raghunathan (19 May 2003). Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. University of California Press. p. 994. ISBN 978-0-520-22821-4.
  3. ^ S. Irfan Habib (23 March 2019). "Revolutionary ideas that live on". The Hindu. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  4. ^ Rahul Bjørn Parson. The Bazaar and the Bari: Calcutta, Marwaris, and the World of Hindi Letters (PhD dissertation). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 6 March 2023.