Prabuddha Bharata Or Awakened India

Discipline	Humanities,Social Sciences,Indian Studies,Vedanta,Spirituality,Religion,Culture
Language	English
Edited by	Swami Divyakripananda
Publication details
History	July 1896 – present
Publisher	Advaita Ashrama (India)
Frequency	Monthly
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ISO 4	Prabuddha Bharata
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ISSN	0032-6178
LCCN	ca30000793
OCLC no.	781901638
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Journal homepage Online access Online archive Archives 1896-2001

Prabuddha Bharata Or Awakened India is anEnglish-language monthlyjournal of theRamakrishna Order, in publication since July 1896.^[1] It carries articles and translations by monks, scholars, and other writers on humanities and social sciences including religious, psychological, historical, and cultural themes. It has a section of book reviews where important publications from university presses from around the world are reviewed. It is edited fromAdvaita Ashrama, Mayavati,Uttarakhand, and published and printed inKolkata.Prabuddha Bharata is India's longest running English journal.^[2]

Prabuddha Bharata was founded in 1896 by P. Aiyasami,B. R. Rajam Iyer, G. G. Narasimhacharya, and B. V. Kamesvara Iyer, in Madras (nowChennai), at the behest ofSwami Vivekananda, with whom the founders had been closely associated before the swami went to America in 1893. The swami suggested the journal's name, and gave encouragement to the founders through his letters to them. The editor, B. R. Rajam Iyer, was only twenty-four years old. The journal saw two full years of publication from Madras, from July 1896 to June 1898. The death of the editor on 13 May 1898 fromBright's disease brought the journal's publication to an unexpected pause, and the July 1898 number could not be published. AsSister Nivedita recalled the period in her memoirs, 22 June – 15 July 1898: "The Swami (Vivekananda) had always had a special love for this paper, as the beautiful name he had given it indicated. He had always been eager too for the establishment of organs of his own. The value of the journal in the education of modern India was perfectly evident to him, and he felt that his master's message and mode of thought required to be spread by this means as well as by preaching and by work."^[3]

By that time, Swami Vivekananda had returned to India and was visitingAlmora. He asked Captain J. H. Sevier, one of his English disciples who was accompanying him, to take up the management of the journal; Sevier agreed and offered to meet the preliminary costs associated with reviving it, which included purchasing and bringing up a hand-press, types, papers, ink and other materials required for the purpose from Kolkata.^[4] ThePrabuddha Bharata resumed publication in August 1898 from Almora.Swami Swarupananda, one of Vivekananda's monastic disciples, became the new editor.

Swami Vivekananda wrote a poem titledTo The Awakened India addressed toPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India in August 1898, when the journal was not published for one month owing to the untimely death of its first editorB. R. Rajam Iyer and was transferred from Madras (Chennai) toAlmora Himalayas.^[5] The press was shifted to the newly foundedAdvaita Ashrama, Mayavati, in March 1899.Swami Swarupananda died inNainital in 1906.Swami Virajananda, who in 1938 would become the president of theRamakrishna Order, succeeded him as editor. Among later editors were SwamisYatiswarananda (1922–24),Ashokananda (1927–30),Gambhirananda (1942–44), and Vandanananda (1950–54). The printing of the journal was shifted from Mayavati to Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1924. In 2010, Advaita Ashrama released a DVD archive of the first 114 years of Prabuddha Bharata, covering the years 1896 to 2009.'Some of the greatest minds of India and the world have spoken their minds through writings on Indian culture, spirituality, philosophy, history and psychology.'^[6] 'At one time,Mahatma Gandhi used to eagerly wait for every issue of the Journal.'^[7] The 'famous PsychologistCarl Jung's thesis on yoga and meditation was serialised and first published in Prabuddha Bharata.'^[8][9] 'Dr S Radhakrishnan used to read every issue of this Journal with great interest.'^[10]

Publishes papers that are vetted by its internal team of referees. The rejection rate is around 80%. Most of the papers published are invited by the editor. Uninvited papers could have a turnaround time of about one year or more.^[11]

The journal has assigned different titles to its editor over the course of its history. After being shifted to the Advaita Ashrama, the first three editors were also presidents of the ashrama. Thereafter, the editor and president were different persons. From 1959, the president was also called the editor, and the actual editor called the joint editor. From September 1993, the ashrama president has been called the managing editor, and the editor has again been called the editor.

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Swami Vivekananda's Poem: To the Awakened India (August 1898)

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