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The Indian Appeal

About: 

The Indian Appeal was a monthly journal set up by an Indian student at Oxford University, Hira Lal Kumar. It began in September 1889 with the aims to publicise Indian questions in the UK and provide summaries of opinions from India on these questions. The journal included discussion of the achievements of other Indian students in the UK, and events at the National Indian Association and Northbrook Club.

The subscription was 3/ per annum or 3d monthly and appeared to be financed totally by subscriptions and Kumar's efforts. The last issue was published in April 1892, as Kumar was not receiving enough subscriptions to keep up with the costs.

Other names: 

The Indian Appeal: a Monthly Magazine intended to give Expression to the bona fide Opinions of the Native and Anglo-Indian Press on Indian politics, etc.

Date began: 
01 Sep 1889
Key Individuals' Details: 

Hira Lal Kumar (editor)

Date ended: 
01 Apr 1892

Location

38 Hayfield Road
Oxford, OX2 6TX
United Kingdom
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Lucifer

About: 

Lucifer was the organ of the Theosophical Society in Britain. It was a monthly journal that included articles about Theosophical teachings and philosophies. The journal also reported upon Theosophical activities.

Other names: 

Became The Theosophical Review in 1897

Date began: 
15 Jan 1887
Key Individuals' Details: 

Editors: H. P. Blavatsky and Mabel Collins from 1887

H. P. Blavatsky from February 1889

H. P. Blavatsky and Annie Besant from September 1889

Annie Besant from June 1891, with sub-editor G. R. S. Mead

Date ended: 
15 Aug 1897
Books Reviewed Include: 

Lala Baijnath, England and India

Journal of the East India Association

About: 

The Journal of the East India Association began in 1867 with the foundation of the East India Association. The journal printed the lectures that were delivered at East India Association meetings. These lectures were given by people sympathetic to the East India Association - Indian and British, especially former British officials - and were generally on matters relating to the Indian economy and polity.

The journal was published by the East India Association at first and then by W. Clowes & Sons. The journal was subsequently incorporated and absorbed into The Asiatic Review.

Date began: 
01 Jan 1867
Archive source: 

Mss Eur F147/27-64, Papers of East India Association and Asiatic Review, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras

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Indian Art and Letters

About: 

Indian Art and Letters was the organ of the India Society. It was published twice a year from 1925 and produced articles relating to the activities of the India Society and their counterparts in France (L'Association Française des Amis de L'Orient) and the Netherlands. The journal would include transcripts of the lectures delivered to the India Society. These would include lectures by Indian visitors to London.

As the publication of the India Society, Indian Art and Letters would print the Annual Report of the India Society every year. The journal also published notices about relevant exhibitions and in 1930 and 1931 was particularly concerned with the question of building a Central Museum for Asiatic Art in the heart of London. Indian Art and Letters gives insight into the activities of those interested in Asiatic Art in London in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

Other names: 

Art and Letters: India and Pakistan (1948-9) 

Art and Letters (1949 - 1964)

Date began: 
01 Jan 1925
Key Individuals' Details: 

Frederick Richter (editor)

Connections: 

Contributors included: 

Mulk Raj Anand, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Ajit Ghose, Mohammad Iqbal, K. M. Panikkar, Stanley Rice, Earl of Ronaldshay, Ranjee G. Shahani, W. E. Gladstone Solomon, Edward Thompson, John de la Valette

Archive source: 

India Society minutes, Mss Eur F147/65A and 65B, and India Society press cuttings, Mss Eur F147/104-7, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras

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Britain and India

About: 

Britain and India began in January 1920 as a monthly journal in order to promote understanding and unity between the two countries. It was edited by the Australian Theosophist, Mrs Josephine Ransom, in London, and was the organ of the Britain and India Association that began at the same time. The journal included articles ranging from political statements, reviews of books, interviews with key Indian individuals (including Rabindranath Tagore and Sarojini Naidu) to accounts of events in London for British and Indian audiences and reprints of speeches given by Indians in London halls (such as by C. R. Jinarajadasa and Yusuf Ali).

By August 1920, the journal had to be produced bi-monthly, and it was discontinued in December 1920 due to financial constraints. The journal was particularly concerned with responding to the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre in Amritsar and was keen to make sure the event was not forgotten in its readers' minds. It also promoted women's associations and education for Indian women in Britain. The journal provided regular accounts of the performances put on by Kedar Nath Das Gupta's Union of the East and West. On 30 October 1920, the association hosted a conference on India in London.

Date began: 
01 Jan 1920
Connections: 

Contributors: Chinnammalu Amma, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, N. C. Daruwalla, Jamnadas K. Gandhi (Gandhi's nephew), Noor Inayat Khan (head of the Sufi order in England), V. K.  Maulana Syed Sulaiman Nadwi (member of the Indian Khilafat Delegation), Thakur Jessarajsinghji Seesodi, Khalid Sheldrake.

Date ended: 
01 Dec 1920
Books Reviewed Include: 

Ali, Maulvi Muhammad, Islam: The Religion of Humanity (Unwin Brothers)

Kaumudi, Kavita, Great Ganga the Guru; or How a Seeker Sought the Real (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner)

Singh, Saint Nihal, The King’s Indian Allies: The Rajas and their India and India’s Fighters: Their Mettle, History and Services to Britain

Location

7 Southampton Street
London, WC2R 0LQ
United Kingdom

Asiatic Review

About: 

The Asiatic Quarterly Review was founded by Sir Lepel Griffin in 1885. Griffin founded the journal as an organ of the East India Association and employed Demetrius Boulger as editor. In 1891, the scope of the journal was expanded beyond just Indian matters to South East Asia and the Middle East and therefore the name was changed to the Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record. The third series began in 1896 and was taken over by G. W. Leitner at the Oriental Institute at Woking. In 1913, the name was constricted back to the Asiatic Quarterly Review and the journal was edited by W. MacCarthy Mann and Gilbery Lyne. In 1914, it was published from London and renamed the Asiatic Review as it was now published more frequently during the year.

The journal combined articles from the proceedings of East India Association meetings with other articles on matters relating to Asia. It also included book reviews and comments on international affairs. The journal did not shy away from political matters, and actively encouraged debates from various standpoints. The Asiatic Review is a valuable resource for information about the activities of South Asians in Britain and a number of reviews of books relating to South Asia. In 1915, the journal began a regular section 'Where East and West Meet', written by A. A. Smith, editor of the Indian Magazine and Review, which gave a record of events in Britain relating to 'Asiatic questions'. The journal ceased publication in 1952.

Other names: 

Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record

Asiatic Quarterly Review

Secondary works: 

On Leitner see: W. D. Rubinstein, ‘Leitner , Gottlieb Wilhelm (1840–1899)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2009) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51109]

Date began: 
01 Jan 1885
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Date ended: 
01 Jan 1952
Precise date ended unknown: 
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Books Reviewed Include: 

Karkaria, R. P. India: Forty Years of Progress and Reform (Oxford University Press, 1896)

Dutt, Romesh Chunder, England and India: A Record of Progress during a Hundred Years, 1785-1885 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1897)

Pandian, T. B., Indian Village Folk, their Works and Ways (London: Elliot Stock, 1898)

Beg, Subadar Mohammad, My Jubilee Visit to London (Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1899)

Dutt, Romesh Chunder, The Civilization of India (London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1900)

Pillai, G. Paramaswan, Representative Indians (London: Thacker & Co., 1902)

Mahtab, B. C., Studies (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1904)

Naidu, Sarojini, The Golden Threshold (London: W. Heinemann, 1905)

Mitra, S. M., The Life and Letters of Sir John Hall (London: Longmans, 1911)

Tagore, Rabindranath, Lovers' Gift and Crossing (London: Macmillan, 1918)

Tagore, Rabindranath, Mashi and Other Stories (London: Macmillan, 1919)

 

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Siddha Mohana Mitra

About: 

Siddha Mohana Mitra was born in 1856 and died in 1925. He was of Hindu-Bengali origin and had lived in Hyderabad for a number of years. Mitra had been editor of the Deccan Post.

From the begining of the twentieth century, Mitra wrote a number of books, published in London, on India. He was a regular contributor to the Asiatic Quarterly Review. He was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society and met a number of high-ranking Anglo-Indian officials. His book, Indian Problems, cited by Lord Curzon in a House of Lords debate in 1912 revealed Mitra's argument that the partition of Bengal had not had a detrimental effect on the region. George Birdwood wrote an introduction to this book, and encouraged Mitra to publish his work of fiction, Hindupore.

Published works: 

British Rule in India, introduction by Sir James Fergusson, L. Ashburner, John Pollen and Colonel W. Loch (London: Dalziel and Co., 1905)

India and Imperial Preference (London: Cobden Club, 1907)

Indian Problems, introduction by Sir George Birdwood (London: J. Murray, 1908)

Hindupore: A peep behind the Indian unrest - an Anglo-Indian Romance (London: Luzac and Co., 1909)

Life and Letters of Sir John Hall, introduction by Read-Admiral R. Massie Blomfield (London: Longmans, 1911)

(with her Highness the Maharani of Baroda) The Position of Women in Indian Life (London: Longmans, 1911)

Anglo-Indian Studies (London: Longmans, 1913)

Peace in India, how to attain it (London: Longmans, 1922)

Example: 

Anglo-Indian Studies (London: Longmans, 1913), preface

Date of birth: 
01 Jan 1856
Connections: 

Maharani of Baroda, George Birdwood, John Murray (publisher)

Cobden Club, Royal Asiatic Society

Contributions to periodicals: 

Asiatic Quarterly Review

Calcutta Review

The Fortnightly Review

The Hibbert Journal

Indian Review

Nineteenth Century

Precise DOB unknown: 
Y
Reviews: 

The Athenæum, 16 August 1913 (Anglo-Indian Studies)

The Times (Life and Letters of Sir John Hall)

The Morning Post (Life and Letters of Sir John Hall)

Contemporary Review (Life and Letters of Sir John Hall)

The Times (Indian Problems)

The Athenaeum (Indian Problems)

Saturday Review (Indian Problems)

The Times (The Position of Women in Indian Life)

The Morning Post (The Position of Women in Indian Life)

Contemporary Review (The Position of Women in Indian Life)

Spectator (The Position of Women in Indian Life)

Literary World (The Position of Women in Indian Life)

Manchester Guardian (The Position of Women in Indian Life)

The Daily Chronicle (The Position of Women in Indian Life)

Outlook (The Position of Women in Indian Life)

Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Review (The Position of Women in Indian Life)

Extract: 

My book, "Indian Problems", has not only been well received by the British Press, but has been quoted by Lord Curzon in a Debate in the House of Lords. Among my humble suggestions therein which aroused attention was the granting of the Victoria Cross to members of the Native Army, which was graciously taken into consideration by the King-Emperor, with the result that the much-coveted V. C. is now within the reach of my countrymen. Such circumstances have encouraged me to publish the present volume, "Anglo-Indian studies".

Other names: 

S. M. Mitra

Date of death: 
01 Jan 1925
Precise date of death unknown: 
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East India Association

About: 

The East India Association was founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866, in collaboration with Indians and retired British officials in London. It superseded the London Indian Society and was a platform for discussing matters and ideas about India, and to provide representation for Indians to the Government. Naoroji delivered the first lecture to the Association on 2 May 1867. The Association's first President was Lord Lyveden.

In 1868, the East India Association had nearly 600 members. This had increased to 1,000 in 1878. Female members were admitted from 1912. The Association produced a journal (Journal of the East India Association) from its inception which included the papers that were delivered before their meetings. Papers and proceedings of these meetings were then produced in the Asiatic Quarterly Review, which eventually superseded the Journal of the East India Association. These lectures were usually delivered in the Association's regular meeting place - Caxton Hall, Westminster (i.e., Westminster Town Hall). Over the course of its existence, the Association would listen to lectures from a wide range of Indian and British men and women on matters ranging from the economic development of India to literature to suffrage. In March 1940, after a lecture delivered by Michael O'Dwyer at Caxton Hall, the former Governor of Punjab at the time of the Amritsar Massacre was shot dead by Udham Singh.

The East India Association incorporated the National Indian Association in 1949 and became the Britain, India and Pakistan Association. In 1966 it amalgamated with the former India Society, now Royal India, Pakistan and Ceylon Society, to become the Royal Society for India, Pakistan and Ceylon.

Example: 

'The Jubilee of the East India Association (founded 1866)', Ch. I, Asiatic Review XI.29 (January 1917), pp. 1-14; p. 3

Secondary works: 

Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto Press, 2002)

Content: 

Ten installments (until July 1918) in the Asiatic Review on the history of the East India Association, with details of all the key lectures that were given in the first fifty years of the Association.

Date began: 
01 Jan 1866
Extract: 

One of the chief objects Mr Naoroji had in view in founding the Association was the awakening of the British people to a due sense of their responsibilities as rulers of India, and his first endeavours were therefore directed to the dissipation of that 'colossal ignorance' of India which had so impressed him on his first arrival in England in 1855. Later on he saw how desirable it was that the Chiefs and Princes of India should be represented in this country, and that all possible assistance should be afforded them in laying their claims and views before Government for the protection of their interests and the redress of their grievances. So 'all persons interested in India' (whether Indians or Britons) were welcomed as Members of the East India Association.

Archive source: 

Minute books, financial papers and correspondence, Mss Eur F147, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras

Location

Caxton Hall London, SW1E 6AS
United Kingdom
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Mary Carpenter

About: 

Mary Carpenter was the daughter of a Unitarian Minister, Lant Carpenter, whose family moved to Bristol in 1817. In 1833 the Brahmo Samaj Reformer, Raja Rammohun Ray, visited Bristol and was an important influence upon Mary Carpenter, encouraging an interest in India. Carpenter moved into Red House Lodge in Bristol in 1858 and entertained a number of Indian visitors to Britain, including Satyendranath Tagore, the elder brother of Rabindranath, who arrived in Britain in 1863 and was the first Indian to join the ICS through the competitive ranks, his companion Manomohun Ghose, Joguth Chunder Gangooly, an ordained minister from Boston, and Rakhal Das Haldar who visited Britain for education in the 1860s.

Mary Carpenter visited India four times, the first was in 1866 where she was accompanied by Manomohun Ghose, returning to India after having been called to the Bar, and the daughter of Dr Goodeve Chuckerbutty from Calcutta who had been sent to England for education. Her first port-of-call was to Satyendranath Tagore in Bombay, and on this trip she met Sasipada Banerji who was to return the visit in 1871.

During her third visit to India in 1870, Keshub Chunder Sen discussed with Carpenter the idea of forming an association in Britain. Sen visited her in Bristol in June 1870 and in September 1870, Mary Carpenter inaugurated the Bristol Indian Association. This Association was subsequently renamed the National Indian Association and was designed to promote social reform (particulary female education) in India and provide a meeting place for Indian visitors to Britain. In January 1871, Carpenter began producing the Journal of the National Indian Association. After her death in 1877, the headquarters of the Association were transferred to London.

Published works: 

The Last Days in England of Rajah Rammohun Roy (London, 1866) 

Six Months in India (London: Longmans, 1868)

Date of birth: 
03 Apr 1807
Contributions to periodicals: 

Journal of National Indian Association

Secondary works: 

Burton, Antoinette, 'Fearful Bodies into Disciplined Subjects: Pleasure, Romance, and the Family Drama of Colonial Reform in Mary Carpenter's "Six Months in India"', Signs 20.3 (Spring 1995), pp. 545-74

Carpenter, J. Estlin, The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter (London: Macmillan & Co., 1881 [1879])

Archive source: 

Mss Eur Photo Eur 280: "India, My Appointed Place": An Account of Mary Carpenter's Four Journeys to India, by Norman C. Sargant, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras

Mss Eur F147, National Indian Association Minutes, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras

Mss 12693 and pamphlets, Bristol Record Office, Bristol

City of birth: 
Exeter
Country of birth: 
England
Date of death: 
14 Jun 1877
Location of death: 
Bristol, England
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Abdul Majid

About: 

Abdul Majid was the Imam of the Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking, and an editor of the Islamic Review.

Location: 

Woking

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