Gita Press and the Making of Hindu IndiaIn the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen turned spiritualists, set up the Gita Press and Kalyan magazine. As of early 2014, Gita Press had sold close to 72 million copies of the Gita, 70 million copies of Tulsidas's works and 19 million copies of scriptures like the Puranas and Upanishads. And while most other journals of the period, whether religious, literary or political, survive only in press