Deenbandhu, sometimes transliterated as Dinbandhu and spelled Din Bandhu, was a weekly Marathi-language newspaper first published in Pune, British India in January 1877.
[3] Deenbandhu was founded by Krishnarao Pandurang Bhalekar (1850-1910)[4] and served as an outlet for Jotirao Phule's Satyashodhak Samaj.
[6] Bhalekar ran Dinbandhu almost single-handedly till April 1880 after which the newspaper moved to Mumbai because of financial troubles.
Deenbandhu was selling 1650 copies per week in 1884, thus making it the second-highest circulation Marathi or Anglo-Marathi newspaper in Bombay Presidency, after Kesari.
He imported a printing press from Ohio that continued to produce the newspaper until it ceased publication in the 1970s.