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The Journal of National Indian Association
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Monthly journal produced by the National Indian Association between 1871 and 1933
Other names
The Indian Magazine
The Indian Magazine and Review
About
The National Indian Association began to produce a monthly journal in 1871 known as The Journal of National Indian Association. From 1886 it was known as The Indian Magazine and then renamed in 1891 to The Indian Magazine and Review. The publishers of the journal were as follows: W. H Allen until 1877; G. Kegan Paul after 1877; Archibald Constable from 1891; National Indian Association from 1914.
The journal included notices about the activities of the NIA, pieces about Indian affairs, information about Indian students, reviews of books about India and (rarely) poems or short stories. In 1896 the Society for the Encouragement and Preservation of Indian Art adopted The Indian Magazine as its mouthpiece and contributed articles on artistic matters.
From 1920 the journal was no longer able to produce monthly issues owing to financial restraints. It stopped printing in 1933 with the retirement of the National Indian Association secretary, E. J. Beck.
Editors: Mary Carpenter (1871–7), Elizabeth Adelaide Manning (1877–1905), A. A. Smith (Miss) (from 1907).
Contributors included: E. J. Beck, M. K. Gandhi, E. B. Havell, Lady Mary Hobhouse, Sarojini Naidu née Chattopadhyaya, John Pollen, Abdul Qadir, Samuel Satthianadhan, Saint Nihal Singh, Cornelia Sorabji, Flora Annie Steel, Abdullah Yusuf Ali.
Burton, Antoinette, ‘Institutionalizing Imperial Reform: The Indian Magazine and Late-Victorian Colonial Politics’, in David Finkelstein and Douglas M. Peers (eds) Negotiating India in the Nineteenth-Century Media (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 23–50
National Indian Association Minute Books, Mss Eur F147, Asia and Africa Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras
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