Two Marwari businessmen, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, started the Gita Press.

The Gita Press was set up at Gorakhpur in 1923.

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Gita Press was registered under the Societies Registration Act of 1860.

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Gita Press's Kalyan Patrika is the first monthly magazine to the Hindu religion.

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Kalyan Patrika do not carry advertisements or reviews of books.

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Hanuman Prasad Poddar was the founding editor of Kalyan and headed it for forty-five years.

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Gita Press established the Gita Pariksha Samiti in 1929 to popularize the Bhagavad Gita book and its eternal message.

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The Gita Press launched the English-language journal Kalyana Kalpataru in 1934 to reach out to the non-Hindi-speaking public.

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By 1983, Gita Press had sold nearly 5.7 million copies of Ramcharitmanas.

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It published millions of copies of Hindu religious texts such as the Gita, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Puranas, and Upanishads.

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