''The Modern Review'' was a monthly magazine published in

Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

founded and edited by

Ramananda Chatterjee Ramananda Chatterjee ( bn, রামানন্দ চট্টোপাধ্যায়) (29 May 1865 – 30 September 1943) was founder, editor, and owner of the Calcutta based magazine, the '' Modern Review''. He has been described as th ...

. It was in circulation between 1907 and 1995. The magazine emerged as an important forum for the Indian nationalist intelligentsia. It carried essays on

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, as well as poems, stories, travelogues, and sketches.

Radhakamal Mukerjee Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968), a leading thinker and social scientist of modern India, was Professor of Economics and Sociology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lucknow. Mukerjee played an important and constructive role in the Ind ...

published his early, pioneering essays on environmental degradation in India here and

Verrier Elwin Harry Verrier Holman Elwin (29 August 1902 – 22 February 1964) was a British-born Indian anthropologist, ethnologist and tribal activist, who began his career in India as a Christian missionary. He first abandoned the clergy, to work with Ma ...

reports from the Gond country were first published here. Numerous other friends of India including Rev. Jabez T. Sunderland wrote regularly for the magazine. Another indication of the journal's stature was the publication, within its pages, of

Jawaharlal Nehru Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat— * * * * and author who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20t ...

's pseudonymous autocritique ''Rashtrapati'', by ‘Chanakya’ in November 1937. Ramachandra Guha indicates that alone was evidence that it was "leading journal of the progressive Indian intelligentsia." The ''Modern Review'' had a sister magazine ''Prabasi'', which was published in Bengali language, Bengali - ''Modern Review'' appeared in English. With a broadly nationalistic outlook, it did not follow the line of any particular political party. This meant that it could act as an all-India forum and that it stood apart from party journals concurrently run by the Indian National Congress, the Communist Party of India, Communists, the All-India Muslim League, Muslim League, the Khaksar Tehrik Hindu Mahasabha, and the Scheduled Castes Federation. Its only real competitor was the ''Indian Social Reformer''. The Hindu Guru Nigamananda, Swami Nigamananda's collection ''Thakurer Chithi'' was published in this magazine in 1941 (other reference date:26 December 1938).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Modern Review Defunct magazines published in India Defunct political magazines English-language magazines published in India Literature of Indian independence movement Magazines established in 1907 Magazines disestablished in 1995 Mass media in Kolkata Monthly magazines published in India Political magazines published in India

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