Majdur (, 'Worker') was a Hindi weekly newspaper published from Kanpur, India.Das, Sisir Kumar. A History of Indian Literature. 2.. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1995. p. 623 Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi and Harihar Nath Shastri were editors of the newspaper.Narayan, Jayaprakash, and Bimal Prasad. Jayaprakash Narayan: Selected Works. New Delhi: Manohar, 2000. p. 62Datar, Bhagwant Nageshrao. Harihar Nath Shastri: Life and Work. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1968. p. v Majdur was not affiliated to any political party. It covered issues relating to the workers and peasants movements.
As of 1928 Majdur had a circulation of 1,000, by 1931 the weekly circulation had reached 1,500.Pandey, Gyanendra. The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940. London: Anthem Press, 2002. p. 64
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