MODERN REVIEW 1910-1945 [ABOUT 19 VOLUMES CONTAINING ABOUT 53 ISSUES]
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.
Volume 7, nos. 1-6 January to June 1910
Volume 9, nos.1-6 January to June 1911
Volume 15, nos.1-6 January to June 1914
Volume 20, nos.7-12 July to December 1916
Volume 21, nos.1-6 January to June 1917
Volume 23, nos.1-6 January to June 1918
Volume 27, nos.1-6 January to June 1920
Volume 28, nos.1-6 July-December 1920
Volume 31, nos.1-6 January-June 1922
Volume 33, nos.1-6 January to June 1923
Volume 34, nos.1-6 July-December 1923
Volume 52, nos.1-6 July to December 1932
Volume 53, nos.1-6 January to June 1933
Volume 55, nos.1-6 January to June 1934
Volume 72, nos.1-6 July to December 1942
Volume 73 nos.1-6 January to June 1943
Volume 74, nos.1-6 July to December
Volume 75, nos.1-6 January to June 1944
Volume 77, nos.1-6, January to June 1945
All volumes have been beautifully rebound in half leather; each PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED with coloured and black and white plates of Early Bengal School Masters and Modern Masters.
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