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Roshni

(1939-[?], Bombay, New Delhi & Lucknow)

Roshni was a quarterly and later monthly journal published by the All-India Women’s Conference in Bombay, New Delhi and Lucknow. Among its editors were Lakshmi N. Menon, Indira Maydeo, Rajan Nehru and Smt. Avabai B. Wadia. A first series of the journal was published from 1939 to 1945 (Vol. 1 to Vol. 8); a second series began in 1946 (beginning with Vol. 1).

The Ideas of India database covers the following volumes of Roshni:

  • Vol. 2, 1940-1941 (Nos. 1-4, 6-8)
  • Vol. 3, 1942 [individual issues]
  • Vol. 4, 1943 (Nos. 1-3)
  • Vol. 5, 1944 [individual issues]
  • September 1945
  • Vols. 1-4 (New Series), 1946-1949
  • Vol. 5 (New Series), 1950 (Nos. 1-4, 6-10)

Some issues of Vol. 4 (New Series) are erroneously numbered Vol. 5.

The subtitle varied: Quarterly Bulletin of The All-India Women’s Conference; Journal of The All India Women’s Conference.

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