MODERN REVIEW 1929-1961
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 honor 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.
July - December 1929
January - June 1931
July - December 1933
June - December (number 1-6), 1934
August - December, 1935-37; (including issues August 1935, December 1935, January 1936, February 1936, April 1936, May 1936, August 1936, October 1937, November 1937, October 1956, December 1956)
January - October 1938; January, February, April - July, September, October
January - June 1939
January - June 1940
March - July 1940)
January -December 1941 - 42, (January, February, April, June, June 1942, October 1942, November 1942, December 1942)
January - November 1943 (January, March, June, August - October 1943, December 1943, January 1944, February 1944, November 1944, February to November 1943 (February -June, August - November 1943)
January - November 1945 - 46 (January 1945, March 1945, December 1945, January 1946, April 1946, March 1946, October 1946, November 1946)
January - December 1 - 12 1948 (January, March - July, October to December)
January - June 1950 (February - June bound with 3 extra issues)
February - December 1952 - 53 (February 1952, April 1952, May 1952, July 1952, September 1952, November 1952, December 1952, February 1953, September 1953, November 1953, December 1953)
January - November 1954 (February - April 1954, August - November 1954)
January - June 1955-57 (January 1955, March 1955 - October 1955, April 1956, May 1956, January 1957, May 1957, June 1957)
January - June 1959
January - June 1960
April - December 1961
All volumes have been rebound in marbled boards; original wrappers bound in wherever available.