While a professor at Samaldas College, Bhavnagar, the Indian writer Manilal Dwivedi started a monthly magazine, Priyamvada, in August 1885.

He discontinued it in September 1890 after realizing that it would not flourish so long as it addressed only women readers, and converted it into the monthly magazine Sudarshan, expanding its scope to all of the topics he considered important, and aiming it at society at large.

[3] After Manilal's death, his disciple and close friend Anandshankar Dhruv, at the insistence of Mansukhram Tripathi, took over the editorship of Sudarshan.

[4] He held this post for four years, and after Dhruv started his own magazine, Vasant, in 1902, the editorship was taken over by Manilal's elder brother Madhavlal Nabhubhai Dwivedi.

They included Sir Chinubhai Madhavlal, Narsinhrao Divetia, Manibhai Jashbhai, Baa Saheb Bairajba, Lallubhai Shamaldas, Kalapi, Balwantray Thakore, Mansukhram Tripathi and Manishankar Bhatt 'Kant'.