The Light of the East was a monthly review founded in 1922[1] at Calcutta by Georges Dandoy, SJ (1882-1962) and Pierre Johanns, SJ.[2] Dandoy was the chief editor.[3] The monthly ceased publication in 1934.[4]
Dandoy and Johanns were young Jesuits, newly arrived in India, when they met Brahmachari Animananda, disciple of Brahmobandhav Upadhyay. Animananda encouraged them in their desire to begin a journal that would carry on the spirit of inquiry initiated by Upadhyay.[5] P. Turmes reports that Animananda's face brightened up when the two Jesuits laid before him the proposal for a journal that would present Christ to India in a way adapted to her mentality and culture.[6]
Both Dandoy and Johanns contributed regularly to the review. Several of Johanns' contributions were later published in book form under the title To Christ to the Vedanta.[7] Other contributors included members of the so-called Calcutta School of Indology.
The Indian Institute of the University of Oxford has an incomplete set.[8] The Yale University Library has a complete set on microfilm.http://yufind.library.yale.edu/yufind/Record/6255922