MARG Publications
3rd Floor, Army & Navy Building,148,Mahatma Gandhi Road,
Mumbai
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A Mumbai-based not-for-profit publisher, Marg strives to engage and augment interest in Indian art and culture, illuminating the many dark corners in India’s cultural landscape both within India and internationally.
Marg’s regular publishing program includes quarterly magazines and hardbound books. Other publications include additional books as special publications, a series of films, and books, guides, and catalogues for other organizations. The high-quality and visually stunning titles are internationally recognized as a valuable repository of data and analysis of Indian and related art.
Marg looks to combine a devotion to unique and thought-provoking documentation of South Asia’s past with new research and scholarship spreading international awareness of the present. It began with Mulk Raj Anand at the helm in 1946. With seven ads and two rooms provided by the visionary industrialist J.R.D. Tata, it started the massive task of identifying, cataloguing, and publicizing the nation’s heritage. Since its inception, Marg, which means pathway in Hindi, has helped to shape contemporary debates surrounding art, architecture and culture. In the path-breaking periods immediately before and after independence, Marg sought to provide new direction to Indian art and publish the ideals of the revolutionary Progressive Artists’ Group. The desires of both Marg and the nation also came together in the realms of architecture and urban planning; Marg became an urban catalyst in defining the architecture of the time with the 1965 magazine issue “Bombay: Planning and Dreaming.”
“…man is both the subject and object of his culture, he is both the builder as well as the building, his name is synonymous with culture.” –Mulk Raj Anand, Founder Editor of Marg
