Assorted Lot of Modern Review (20 Volumes)
A HUGE RUN OF THE EARLIEST JOURNAL OF INDIAN ART
Modern Review was the name of a monthly magazine published in Calcutta since 1907 and contains remarkable illustrations by great Bengali artists of the day.
Ramananda Chatterjee the founder of this great journal, laid the foundations of modern Indian journalism. Few publications, if any, commanded as much respect and influence on opinion and decision-makers across undivided India as the two journals he founded and edited during the first four decades of the 20th century: The Modern Review (in English) and Prabasi (in Bengali).
Both journals welcomed in their pages contributors who held diverse, even divergent, views on issues related to India's past, present and future trajectory. The editor himself was an ardent nationalist and liberal. And though he laid store by facts and figures to make his case in his own articles, he could never, as a nationalist, be detached about British rule in India. He considered it his mission to deprive it of all moral justification.
His liberalism was obvious from the wide range of topics - politics and the economy, social reform and new tendencies in the arts and literature - both journals covered. Such was their reputation that new talent, much like well-known personalities, considered it a great honour to appear in them. The contributors to the review included, among many others, such names as Rabindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, M K Gandhi, C F Andrews, Verrier Elwin, Premchand, Romain Rolland, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sister Nivedita and Jadunath Sarkar.
Volume 11, Numbers 1-6, January - June 1912
Volume 44, Numbers 3-6, March-June 1929
Volume50, Numbers 1-6, July-December 1931
Volume 57, Numbers 1-6, January - June 1935
Volume 58, Numbers 1-6, July - December 1935
Volume 60 Numbers 1-6, July - December 1936
Volume 65 Numbers 1-6, January - June 1939
Volume 66, Numbers 1-6, July - December 1939
Volume 68, Numbers 1-5, July ??? November 1940
Volume 70, Numbers 1-6, July - December 1941
Volume 71, Numbers 1-6, January - June 1942
Volume 81, Numbers 1-5, January ??? May 1947
Volume 82, Numbers 3-6, September - December 1947
Volume 101, Numbers 1-4, January - April 1957
Volume 110, Numbers 1-6, July - December 1961
Volume 134, Numbers 1-6, January - June 1974
Volume 140, Numbers 1-6, July - December 1976
Volume 141, Numbers 1-6, January - June 1977
Volume 142, Numbers 1-4, July ??? October 1977
Volume 145, January ??? December 1981
All the volumes in rebound marbled boards