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| General Editor | Naman Paremeshwar Ahuja |
|---|---|
| Categories | Art,Architecture |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Publisher | The Marg Foundation |
| Founder | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Founded | 1946 |
| First issue | October 1946 |
| Country | India |
| Based in | Mumbai |
| Language | English language |
| Website | Official website |
Marg (Pathway) is a quarterlyIndianart magazine and a publisher ofbooks on the arts, based inMumbai. It began in 1946, with writerMulk Raj Anand as its founding editor. It was initially intended to be an encyclopaedia of the arts and culture of India andSouth Asia.
The magazine was mainly funded byJ.R.D. Tata of theTata Group at its inception. Later on, after 1951 and until 1986, it was mostly funded by the Tata Group companies; then theNational Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) was formed as a trust with Marg as a division of NCPA. Since 2010 it has been functioning as an independent not-for-profit organization, The Marg Foundation.[1]
The current General Editor isNaman Parmeshwar Ahuja and the current General Manager is Jyotsna Nambiar.[2] Marg is one of the oldest and most respectedart book publishers in India. It seeks corporate and private sponsorship to subsidize the cost of its publications.[3][4][5]
Each year, apart from its four magazine issues it also publishes a book every quarter, and a few special publications on the subject of Indian and related art and heritage. It has also produced a series of documentary films on heritage sites and a film on Bombay/Mumbai.[4]
In the 1930s, Mulk Raj Anand had moved to England, to a flourishing literary career. AfterWorld War II, he returned to India, at the juncture of its independence and started Marg magazine with "seven ads and two rooms" provided by J. R. D. Tata and withAnil de Silva fromSri Lanka as assistant editor and art historian, Karl J. Khandalavala as an advisor. The aim was to bringIndian art into world focus.[3][6]
It was in the pages of the magazine that architectCharles Correa and his colleagues first presented their proposal for a dream city in Mumbai, then Bombay, "New Bombay", later translated into policy.[5]
Its offices are situated in the historic Army & Navy Building inKala Ghoda,Mumbai's premier art district.
The three serious art book publishers in India are Marg, India Book House and Mapin Publishing. ..