{{Short description|Anglo-Indian theosophical journal}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}} {{Use Indian English|date=January 2014}} {{italic title}} '''''The Aryan Path''''' was an Anglo-Indian theosophical journal published in Bombay, India, between 1930 and 1960.<ref name="kat"/> Its purpose was to form "a nucleus of universal brotherhood of humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color; to study ancient and modern religions, philosophies, and sciences, and to demonstrate the importance of such study".<ref name="Relations1971">{{cite book|title=The Indo-Asian culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=58VBAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=30 March 2012|date=1 January 1971|publisher=Indian Council for Cultural Relations|page=86}}</ref> The magazine's first editor was B. P. Wadia.<ref>Olav Hammer, Mikael Rothstein. Handbook of the Theosophical Current. Brill Publishing, 2013 {{ISBN|9004235965}} (p. 83).</ref><ref name=sisir/> It was published on a bimonthly basis<ref name="sisir">{{cite book|author=Sisir Kumar Das|title=History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&pg=PA641|accessdate=28 July 2015|year=1991|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-798-9|page=641}}</ref> by a group called the Theosophy Company, which distributed copies of the magazine to London.<ref name="spectator">"The April Reviews", ''The Spectator'' magazine. 9 April 1932 - (p. 530)</ref>
==History and profile== ''The Aryan Path'' was founded in January 1930.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Aryan Path Paved the way for 'The International PEN' in India: A history|url=http://penwestbengal.blogspot.com.tr/2008/09/in-search-of-history-all-indian-pen.html|accessdate=28 October 2016|work=PEN West Bengal}}</ref> In its first edition, a writer named "Shravaka" emphasised that <blockquote>so much "original" writing is done today, so much "self-expression" is indulged in that, in the glamour that is raised, the chants of the Gods remain unheard. One of our tasks is to bring home the truth that it is not derogatory to respect the old age facts of the science of the soul.<ref>[http://www.teosofiskakompaniet.net/BPWadiaBiografi.htm Bomanji Pestonji Wadia (1881 - 1958)] Biography of B.P. Wadia. Retrieved 8 August 2013.</ref> </blockquote>
''The Aryan Path'' was published in English on a monthly basis.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Aryan Path|url=http://www.southasiaarchive.com/Content/sarf.120051|work=South Asia Archive|accessdate=28 October 2016}}</ref> The journal contained a variety of articles on Hindu and Buddhist spiritual traditions, as well as essays on English literature, Ruskinian socialism, aesthetics and science.<ref name="Aflalo1904">{{cite book|author=Frederick George Aflalo|title=The sportsman's book for India|url=https://archive.org/details/sportsmansbookfo00aflarich|accessdate=30 March 2012|year=1904|publisher=H. Marshall & Son|page=[https://archive.org/details/sportsmansbookfo00aflarich/page/161 161]}}</ref> The journal's contributors included C. E. M. Joad, John Middleton Murry, A. E. Waite,<ref>Advertisement for ''The Aryan Path'', ''The Saturday Review of Literature'', 17 March 1934, (p. 565)</ref> Ramananda Chatterjee, Edmond Holmes, Max Plowman,<ref>Advertisement for ''The Aryan Path'', ''The Saturday Review of Literature'', 16 September 1933, (p. 118).</ref> J. D. Beresford, Hugh I'Anson Fausset, Hugh de Sélincourt, Humbert Wolfe<ref>Advertisement for ''The Aryan Path'', ''The Bookman (U.K.)'', December 1933, (p. 201)</ref> and Gertrude Emerson Sen.<ref>Harry Oldmeadow, ''Journeys East: 20th Century Western Encounters with Eastern Religious Traditions''. World Wisdom, 2004, {{ISBN|0941532577}} (p. 71).</ref> The March 1930 issue carried an essay on reincarnation by Algernon Blackwood.<ref>Algernon Blackwood, "On Reincarnation". The Aryan Path, I, (p. 155), (Mar. 1930).</ref>
The March 1932 issue carried the article "Goethe and the East" by Otto Schrader, described by ''The Spectator'' magazine as "timely and interesting".<ref name="spectator"/>
Black American scholars such as Alain Locke and William Harrison also contributed to this journal.<ref name="Plummer1996">{{cite book |author=Plummer |first=Brenda Gayle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M4eEkAbYTTUC&pg=PA91 |title=Rising wind: Black Americans and U.S. foreign affairs, 1935-1960 |date=24 June 1996 |publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-4575-2 |page=91 |author-link=Brenda Gayle Plummer |accessdate=30 March 2012}}</ref> The magazine ran several articles criticising racism.<ref>''"Several articles have appeared in the Aryan Path recently, deploring the effects of race prejudice in America, Africa and India''. "Theosophists find followers among N.Y. Intelligentsia". ''The Afro American'', 6 October 1934, (p. 12).</ref>
After 1933 the magazine received considerable correspondence concerning the rise of Nazism, which the journal strongly opposed. In 1938 ''The Aryan Path'' ran an article condemning fascism and Nazism by G. D. H. Cole.<ref>Kuruvila Pandikattu, ''Gandhi: The Meaning of Mahatma for the Millennium''. CRVP, 2001 {{ISBN|1565181565}} (p. 249).</ref>
In 1952 ''The Aryan Path'' ran a series of articles on the Bon religion of Tibet by René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz.<ref>Dan Martin, ''Unearthing Bon Treasures: Life and Contested Legacy of a Tibetan Scripture Revealer, With a General Bibliography of Bon''. Brill, 2001 {{ISBN|9004121234}}, (pp. 390-391).</ref>
The articles of this journal have been quoted in discussions about race relations,<ref name="Rosenberg2006">{{cite book|author=Jonathan Rosenberg|title=How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs And the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDYv638mtOEC&pg=PA266|accessdate=30 March 2012|year=2006|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-00706-9|page=266}}</ref> Indian civilization<ref name="Muse1960">{{cite book|author=Project Muse|title=Journal of the history of ideas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CfkSAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=30 March 2012|year=1960|publisher=Journal of the History of Ideas, Inc.|page=42}}</ref> and English literature.<ref name="P.E.N.Bombay1963">{{cite book|author1=All-India Centre of the P.E.N.|author2=P.E.N. All-India Centre, Bombay|title=The Indian P.E.N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLpjAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=30 March 2012|year=1963|publisher=P.E.N. All-India Centre.|page=197}}</ref>
''The Aryan Path'' ceased publication in 1960.<ref name=kat>{{cite web|author=W. Dallas TenBroeck|title=Memorandum|url=http://www.katinkahesselink.net/his/dtb_3.htm|work=Katinka Hesselink.Net|accessdate=28 October 2016}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|33em}}
==External links== * [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1514392 WorldCat record]
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