Prabuddha Bharata
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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India is an English-language monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order, in continuous publication since July 1896. It carries articles and translations by monks, scholars, and writers on various religious and cultural themes. It is edited from Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, Uttarakhand, by a monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and published and printed in Kolkata.
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[edit] History
Prabuddha Bharata was founded in 1896 by P. Aiyasami, B. R. Rajam Iyer, G. G. Narasimha Charya, and B. V. Kamesvara Iyer, in Madras (now Chennai), at the behest of Swami 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 from Bright’s disease brought the journal’s publication to an unexpected halt.
By that time, Swami Vivekananda had returned to India and was visiting Almora. 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. The Prabuddha Bharata resumed publication in August 1898 from Almora. Swami Swarupananda, one of Vivekananda’s monastic disciples, became the new editor. The press was shifted to the newly founded Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, in March 1899.
Swami Swarupananda died in Nainital in 1906. Swami Virajananda, who in 1958 would become the president of the Ramakrishna Order, succeeded him as editor. Among later editors were Swamis Yatiswarananda (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.
[edit] Editors of Prabuddha Bharata
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.
| × | Period | Name of the Editor |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1896 to 1898 | B R Rajam Iyer |
| 2 | 1898 to 1906 | Swami Swarupananda |
| 3 | 1906 to 1913 | Swami Virajananda |
| 4 | 1914 to 1918 | Swami Prajnananda |
| 5 | 1918 to 1921 | Swami Raghavananda |
| 6 | 1922 to 1924 | Swami Yatiswarananda |
| 7 | 1925 to 1926 | Swami Vividishananda |
| 8 | 1927 to 1930 | Swami Ashokananda |
| 9 | 1931 to 1934 | Swami Pavitrananda |
| 10 | 1935 to 1937 | Swami Maithilyananda |
| 11 | 1938 to 1939 | Swami Tejasananda |
| 12 | 1940 to 1941 | Swami Vipulananda |
| 13 | 1942 to 1944 | Swami Gambhirananda |
| 14 | 1945 to 1947 | Swami Yogeswarananda |
| 15 | 1948 to 1949 | Swami Brahmamayananda |
| 16 | 1950 to 1954 | Swami Vandanananda |
| 17 | 1955 to 1956 | Swami Satswarupananda |
| 18 | 1957 to 1958 | Swami Nihsreyasananda |
| 19 | 1959 to 1961 | Swami Ananyananda |
| 20 | 1962 to 1963 | Swami Chidatmananda |
| 21 | 1964 to 1965 | Swami Kirtidananda |
| 22 | 1966 to July 1968 | Swami Adiswarananda |
| 23 | August to December 1968 | Swami Budhananda |
| 24 | 1969 to 1970 | Swami Rasajnananda |
| 25 | 1971 to 1976 | Swami Tadrupananda |
| 26 | 1977 to 1979 | Swami Balaramananda |
| 27 | 1979 to 1986 | Swami Bhajanananda |
| 28 | 1987 to 1989 | Swami Jitatmananda |
| 29 | 1990 to 1993 | Swami Muktirupananda |
| 30 | 1994 to 1996 | Swami Atmaramananda |
| 31 | 1996 to 1998 | Swami Satyapriyananda |
| 32 | 1999 to 2001 | Swami Sunirmalananda |
| 33 | 2002 to 2004 | Swami Yuktatmananda |
| 34 | 2005 to present | Swami Satyaswarupananda |
[edit] References
- Prabuddha Bharata, Vol. 100 No.1 (January 1995).
- The Story of Ramakrishna Mission (Kolkata: Advaita Ashrama, 2006), 798–811
[edit] External links
Advaita Ashrama, publisher of Prabuddha Bharata
Vedanta website from Russia with articles from Prabuddha Bharata
Cover of March 1897 issue of Prabuddha Bharata
