ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the journals run by Ramananda and the way in which they embodied his idea of the Indian nation. His journals focused on culture, art and archaeology, architecture, history, politics, economics, military affairs and science and technology to produce a community of thought. He was perhaps among the first to coin the phrase “unity in diversity” that virtually became the tagline of the Indian nation. His journals drew a blueprint for the emerging Indian nation that became a reality in 1947. He gathered a remarkable collection of authors to contribute to his journals, the most famous of whom were Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru. The journals covered foreign lands as much as they did India. He published works of art by artists who gained international fame, including Nand Lal Bose and Debi Prasad Roy Choudhary. These journals represented independent journalism through which Ramananda attempted to create a unified self-image of India for which the demand was democratic self-rule.
