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

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founded and edited by Ramananda Chatterjee. It was in circulation between 1907 and 1995. The magazine emerged as an important forum for the

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. It carried essays on

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

Radhakamal Mukerjee Radhakamal Mukerjee (7 December 1889 – 24 August 1968) was an Indian social scientist who was Professor of Economics and Sociology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lucknow. Mukerjee played an important and constructive role in the I ...

published his early, pioneering essays on

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in India here and

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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

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's pseudonymous autocritique ''Rashtrapati'', by 'Chanakya' in November 1937.

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indicates that alone was evidence that it was "leading journal of the progressive Indian intelligentsia."

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The ''Modern Review'' had a sister magazine ''

Prabasi ''Prabasi'' () was a monthly Bengali language literary magazine edited by Ramananda Chatterjee. History and profile ''Prabasi'' was founded by Ramananda Chatterjee in 1901 and ran for over 60 years. It published many important Bengali author ...

'', which was published in

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— ''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

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, the

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s, the

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, the Khaksar Tehrik

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, and the

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. Its only real competitor was the ''Indian Social Reformer''. The Hindu Guru 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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