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{{Short description|Indian art magazine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Marg
| image_file = Marg.PNG
| image_size =
| image_alt =
| image_caption =
| editor = Jyotindra Jain and Naman P. Ahuja
| editor_title = Editors
| previous_editor =
| staff_writer =
| frequency = Quarterly
| circulation =
| category = [[Art]], [[Architecture]]
| company =
| publisher = The Marg Foundation
| founded = 1946
| country = [[India]]
| based = [[Mumbai]]
| language = [[English language]]
| website = [http://www.marg-art.org/ Official website]
| issn =
}}

'''''Marg''''' (''Pathway'') is a quarterly [[India]]n [[art magazine]] and a publisher of books on the arts, based in [[Mumbai]]. It began in 1946, with writer [[Mulk Raj Anand]] as its founding editor. He intended it to be a loose encyclopaedia of the arts of India and related civilizations.

The magazine was mainly funded by [[J.R.D. Tata]] of the [[Tata Group]] at its inception. Later on, after 1951 and until 1986, it was mostly funded by the Tata Group companies; then the [[National Centre for the Performing Arts (India)|National Centre for Performing Arts]] (NCPA) was formed as a trust with Marg as a division of NCPA. Since 2010 it has been functioning as an independent not-for-profit organization, The Marg Foundation.<ref>[http://www.marg-art.org/aboutus.asp About us] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507153025/http://www.marg-art.org/aboutus.asp |date=2009-05-07 }} Marg.</ref>

Currently the editors are Jyotindra Jain and [[Naman Ahuja]]. Marg is one of the oldest and most respected [[art book]] publishers in India. It seeks corporate and private sponsorship to subsidize the cost of its publications.<ref name=ve>{{cite news|last=Zakaria|first=Rafiq|author-link=Rafiq Zakaria|title=Very English, more Indian|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/oldStory/56034/|work=The Indian Express|date=29 Sep 2004}}</ref><ref name=bus>{{cite news|title=The business of books|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/news/the-business-of-books/138495/|work=The Financial Express|date=29 May 2005|quote="The three serious art book publishers in India are Marg, India Book House and Mapin Publishing. .."}}</ref><ref name=ma>{{cite news|title=The last of Indian English fiction's grand troika: Encyclopaedia of arts |url=http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/29/stories/2004092904171100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217175613/http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/29/stories/2004092904171100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 December 2004 |author=Ranjit Hoskote|author-link=Ranjit Hoskote|work=[[The Hindu]] |date=29 Sep 2004 }}</ref>

Each year, apart from its four magazine issues it also publishes a book every quarter, and a few special publications on the subject of Indian and related art and heritage. It has also produced a series of documentary films on heritage sites and a film on Bombay/Mumbai.<ref name=bus/>

==History==
[[File:Army and Navy Building.JPG|left|thumb|140px|The historic Army & Navy Building in [[Kala Ghoda]], [[Mumbai]]. Marg is located on the third floor of the building.]]

In the 1930s, [[Mulk Raj Anand]] had moved to England, to a flourishing literary career. After [[World War II]], he returned to India, at the juncture of its independence and started Marg magazine with "seven ads and two rooms" provided by [[J. R. D. Tata]] and with [[Anil de Silva]] from [[Sri Lanka]] as assistant editor and art historian, Karl J. Khandalavala as an advisor. The aim was to bring [[Indian art]] into world focus<ref name=ve/><ref>[http://www.marg-art.org/magazines.asp Magazines] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731030052/http://www.marg-art.org/magazines.asp |date=2010-07-31 }}</ref>

It was in the pages of the magazine that architect [[Charles Correa]] and his colleagues first presented their proposal for a dream city in [[Mumbai]], then Bombay, "[[New Bombay]]", later translated into policy.<ref name=ma/>

Its offices are situated in the historic Army & Navy Building in [[Kala Ghoda]], [[Mumbai]]'s premier art district.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.marg-art.org/ ''Marg'', Official website]
* [http://www.tata.com/article.aspx?artid=WHzZD7q9Fuw= ''Marg''] at [[Tata Group]] website

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[[Category:1946 establishments in India]]
[[Category:English-language magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Visual arts magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1946]]
[[Category:Mass media in Mumbai]]
[[Category:Quarterly magazines published in India]]

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