Untitled [7 Volumes of Modern Review]
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 74, No. 3, September 1943, pages 161-236
Volume 74, No. 4, October 1943, pages 242-320
Volume 74, No. 6, December 1943, pages 402-480
Volume 76, No. 3, September 1945, pages 125-186
Volume 78, No. 4, October 1945, pages 187-258
Volume 78, No. 5, November 1945, pages 259-334
Volume 78, No. 6, December 1945, pages 336-410
Volume 79, No. 1, January 1946, pages 1-237
Volume 79, No. 4, April 1946, pages 238-316
Volume 79, No. 5, May 1946, pages 317-401
Volume 79, No. 6, June 1946, pages 402-508
Volume 81, No. 2, February 1947, pages 85-169
Volume 81, No. 3, March 1947, pages 170-253
Volume 81, No. 4, April 1947, pages 254-337
Volume 81, No. 5, May 1947, pages 338-421
Volume 81, No. 6, June 1947, pages 422-504
Volume 82, No. 2, August 1947, pages 84-169
Volume 82, No. 4, October 1947, pages 254-337
Volume 82, No. 5, November 1947, pages 338-421
Volume 82, No. 6, December 1947, pages 422-504
Volume 83, No. 1, January 1948, pages 1-85
Volume 83, No. 2, February 1948, pages 86-168
Volume 83, No. 3, March 1948, pages 169-253
Volume 83, No. 4, April 1948, pages 254-337
Volume 83, No. 5, May 1948, pages 338-421
Volume 83, No. 6, June 1948, pages 422-504
Volume 84, No. 2, August 1948, pages 1-169
Volume 84, No. 3, September 1948, pages 170-253
Volume 84, No. 4, October 1948, pages 254-337
Volume 84, No. 5, November 1948, pages 338-421
Volume 84, No. 6, December 1948, pages 422-504
Volume 85, No. 1, January 1949, pages 1-85
Volume 85, No. 2, February 1949, pages 86-169
Volume 85, No. 3, March 1949, pages 170-253
Volume 85, No. 4, April 1949, pages 254-337
Volume 85, No. 5, May 1949, pages 338-421
Volume 85, No. 6, June 1949, pages 422-504
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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