The Inquilab

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The Inquilab
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatPrint
Owner(s) Jagran Prakashan Limited
PublisherJagran Prakashan Limited
EditorShakeel Shamsi (North), Shahid Latif (Mumbai)
Founded1938
LanguageUrdu

The Inquilab is an Urdu-language daily newspaper published in India. [1] It is owned by the Jagran Prakashan Limited, which also publishes Dainik Jagran. [2] [3] In 2017 it claimed a circulation of 127,255.[ citation needed ] It was founded by Abdul Hamid Ansari in 1938 as an underground newspaper during India's freedom movement against British. [4] [2]

In 2010, Jagran Prakashan acquired Midday group, the parent company of Inquilab. While originally published from Mumbai, Inquilab expanded under its new ownership in northern parts of India, and overtook Rashtriya Sahara as the most read Urdu newspaper. [2]

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