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The '''Allahabad Pioneer''' was an Anglo-Indian newspaper founded in Allahabad in 1865 by George Allen, an Englishman who had had great success in the tea business in north-east India in the previous decade.<ref> Das Gupta, Uma.  1977.  "The Indian Press 1870-1880: A Small World of Journalism", ''Modern Asian Studies'', 11(2):213-235. pp 233-234.</ref> It issued a weekly as well as a daily edition (circulation of 5,000).
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In 1872, [[Alfred Percy Sinnett]] became the editor of the newspaper, and oversaw the transformation of the newspaper to one of exercising great influence in British India.<ref>Das Gupta, Uma. 1977. "The Indian Press 1870-1880: A Small World of Journalism", Modern Asian Studies, 11(2):213-235. pp 233-234.</ref> It was regarded as "the ablest and most influential of all Indian newspapers published in the interior of the country.<ref>[http://classiclit.about.com/od/kiplingrudyard/a/Rudyard-Kipling-Biographical-Sketch.htm# Rudyard Kipling - Biographical Sketch] at About.com Classic Literature</ref>
 
It was said to be a "virulent mouthpieces of British government propaganda"<ref>[http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/indian_newspaper_reports_parts_1_to_4/publishers-note-part-4.aspx# Indian Newspaper Reports] at Adam Matthew Publications</ref>
 
In 1874, the weekly ''Pioneer Mail'' became the ''Pioneer Mail and India Weekly News'' and began to also feature short stories and travel writings.<ref name=nla> National Library of Australia.  1994. [http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/gen/sanews.html South Asian Newspapers in Australian Libraries: A Holdings List]</ref>
 
In 1887, a few years after the dismissal of [[A. P. Sinnett|Mr. Sinnett]], author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), in his early 20s, worked at the newspaper office in Allahabad as an assistant editor from November 1887 to March 1889.<ref>[http://classiclit.about.com/od/kiplingrudyard/a/Rudyard-Kipling-Biographical-Sketch.htm# Rudyard Kipling - Biographical Sketch] at About.com Classic Literature</ref>
 
 
The proprietors of ''The Pioneer'' also owned a smaller newspaper, ''The Civil and Military Gazette'', published from [[Lahore]], at which Kipling had worked from 1883 to 1887, and which had served to launch his career as an author.
 
The newspaper remained a primarily Lucknow-based paper until 1990, when it was purchased by the Thapar Group, under [[L. M. Thapar]], who made it a national newspaper, published from [[Delhi]], [[Lucknow]], [[Bhubaneswar]], [[Kochi]], [[Bhopal]], [[Chandigarh]], [[Dehradun]] and [[Ranchi]].
 
However, it did not make money for the group and Thapar cut his losses, selling the paper to its editor [[Chandan Mitra]] in 1998. At that time it had 484 employees. Mitra announced that he intended to seek other investors in due course rather than to remain the owner.<ref>[http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/clippings.nsf/(docid)/23D22B2F773FF0BC6525694200313A97 Editor steps in to save The Pioneer], ''The Times Of India'', 12 May 1998.</ref>
 
On October 17, 2010, ''The Pioneer'' launched its Hindi version of the newspaper from Lucknow.<ref name=hindi/>
 
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