Kisan Mazdoor (Urdu: کسان مزدور, 'Peasant-Worker') is an Urdu language (Hindi: किसान-मजदूर), weekly newspaper, published by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from Kolkata.[1][2]
Kisan Mazdoor was founded in May 1968 as a progressive Urdu weekly, by people close to CPI(M).[3] As of 1969 it had a circulation of around 2,000.[3] Mohammed Amin, parliamentarian and West Bengal Minister of Transport, served as editor of Kisan Mazdoor 1968–1986.[4]
As of 1983 Kisan Mazdoor had its offices at Chandni Chowk, but later shifted to the CPI(M) state headquarters at Alimuddin Street.[1][5]
Around 2014 the publication claimed a circulation of 15,940.[6]
References edit
- ^ a b Registrar of Newspapers for India. Kisan Mazdoor
- ^ Jyoti Basu (1998). Documents of the Communist Movement in India: 1978-1979. National Book Agency. p. 307. ISBN 978-81-7626-024-4.
- ^ a b Communist Party of India (Marxist). Central Committee (1969). Political-organisational report of the Central Committee to the Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Communist Party of India (Marxist). p. 310.
- ^ India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha (1992). Who's who. Rajya Sabha Secretariat. p. 24.
- ^ West Bengal (India). Fact Finding Committee on Small & Medium Newspapers; Sasanka Sekhar Sanyal (1983). Report of the Fact Finding Committee on Small & Medium Newspapers, 1980. Information & Cultural Affairs Department, Government of West Bengal. p. 187.
- ^ Registrar of Newspapers for India. APPENDIX I (Dailies & Periodicals) - STATE-WISE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS WHICH FILED ANNUAL STATEMENTS DURING 2014-15 Archived 17 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine