Bhavishya was a weekly published by the Chand Press Limited (Allahabad), which was initially edited by Ram Rakh Singh Saigal. It was first published in October 1930. This Series includes issues that were published in the years 1930 and 1931, coinciding with the Civil Disobedience movement, Round Table Conferences, and Bhagat Singh's execution. Similar to Chand, each issue of Bhavishya included literature and poetry in Hindi and Urdu. Some also included caricatures, portraits, illustrations, and photographs of monuments, landscapes, and events. Photographs of women participating in protests and rallies sets it apart. Bhavishya focused on the anti-colonial movement and reported on the developments in the political sphere. Its articles included reports, commentaries and bylines on protests, police violence, ordinances, and laws which diminished civil liberties. The opinion column “Dubey ji ki Chitthi” (Letters from Dubey-ji) urged readers to consider events from varied points of view in an irreverently humorous tone. There are recurring sections and columns, although not in each issue, on princely states, sedition and emergency laws, policing, and legal cases. As Bhavishya’s editors were also embroiled in legal cases, mainly as a result of dissenting against the colonial administration, there are many long-form articles and reports which detail the legal trials initiated against Bhavishya. As a mark of protest against colonial laws stifling press freedoms, the editorial column in the first five issues were left blank, and instead carried the couplet: ‘kyā kījiyegā hāl e dil e zār dekhkar, matlab nikāl lījiye akhbār dekhkar’ (What might you derive from seeing the state of [my] harrowed heart, make of it what you will by reading the newspaper). It was a sister publication of the Chand magazine, and often shared the same editors, some of whom were jailed during the course of their editorship. Subsequent to Ram Rakh Saigal, the editorial mantle was taken up by Tribeni Prasad, Bhuvneshwar Nath Misra, Shanker Dayal Srivastava, 'Bismil' Allahabadi, Anandi Prasad Srivastava, and Lakshmi Devi, in succession.
चाँद प्रेस (इलाहाबाद) से रामरख सिंह सहगल की सरपरस्ती में भविष्य नामक साप्ताहिक अख़बार का प्रकाशन हुआ। इसका पहला अंक अक्टूबर 1930 को आया और 1931 तक छपता रहा जिसके कुछ अंक हमें मिल गए। यह सविनय अवज्ञा आंदोलन, गोलमेज़ सम्मेलन और भगत सिंह की फाँसी का दौर था। चाँद की ही तरह हर अंक में यहाँ भी उर्दू शेरो-शायरी और हिन्दी कविता को जगह दी गई। साथ ही तस्वीरें, सामाजिक-राजनीतिक कार्टून, और जगहों, घटनाओं, आंदोलनों में हिस्सा लेती महिलाओं के फ़ोटोग्राफ़ इसको ख़ास बनाते हैं। अदालती कार्रवाइयों और राजनीतिक सरगर्मियों तथा पुलिसिया अत्याचारों की रपटें और उन पर दुबे जी की चुटीली चिट्ठियाँ पाठक को एक ही घटना पर मुख़्तलिफ़ कोणों से और बार-बार सोचने पर मजबूर करती हैं। रजवाड़ों में चल रही राजनीतिक गतिविधियों और राजद्रोह-जैसे क़ानूनों पर लगातार लिखा गया।चूँकि ख़ुद भविष्य के संपादक क़ानूनी मामलों में उलझे हुए थे, मानवाधिकार के कोण से उसकी विस्तृत रपट हुआ ही करती थी। इसके शुरुआती पाँच अंकों में प्रतिबंध-क़ानून का विरोध करते हुए संपादकीय की जगह ख़ाली रख छोड़ी गई। नीचे एक शेर ज़रूर चिपका दिया गया:'क्या कीजिएगा हाले-दिले-ज़ार देखकर, मतलब निकाल लीजिए अख़बार देखकर'। सहगल साहब के बाद इसके संपादकों में त्रिबेनी प्रसाद, भुवनेश्वर नाथ मिश्रा, शंकर दयाल श्रीवास्तव, बिस्मिल इलाहाबादी, आनंदी प्रसाद श्रीवास्तव और लक्ष्मी देवी ख़ास रहीं।.
Extent: 2 binders containing 62 issues.
Volume number: Year 1, Volume 1-4; Year 2, Volume 1.
Other related subjects provided by project holder: 1931 Census of India, Akhil Bhartiya Mushaira Kanpur, All-Asian Women's Conference 1931, All India Muslim Conference, All India Women's Conference (AIWC), Allahabad University Music Conference 1931, Anarchism, Anglo-Indian, Apartheid, Arrest of Bhavishya magazine editor Ram Rakh Singh Saigal, Arya Samaj, Advertisement on Indian-made camera, Banaras Hindu University, Bhagat Singh, Biography of Karl Marx, Bombay Provincial Congress Committee War Council, Cawnpore Riots Inquiry Committee 1931, Chittagong armoury raid trial, Colonial censorship of press, Colonial policing in India, Colonial anthropology, Communism, Data on the effect of boycott movement on British trade, Data on Foreign Imports, Data on the ethnic composition of the colonial Indian army, Data on Political Prisoners, Death of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Delhi Conspiracy Commission 1931, Durgadas Rathore, Fascism, Farmers and farming, Farmers' protest against colonial taxation policies, Forest Satyagraha at Chirner, French colonialism, French Revolution, Girni Kamgar Union, Global comparison of death penalties, Hijli firing incident 1931, Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA), History of court cases involving anti-colonial violence, International Women's Congress, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, Jawahar Divas, Kanpur Riots 1931, Karachi Session of Congress 1931, Kashmir agitation 1931, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Lahore Conspiracy Case, Lahore Conspiracy Case trial, M.K. Gandhi, Maithil Mahasabha, Malthusian theory, Manusmriti, Martial races, Meerut Conspiracy Case, Nepali Kharag Bahadur Singh Giri, Non-cooperation movement, Police surveillance, Philippines Independence movement, Premchand, Princely states, Punjab Mail Massacre 1931, Rajendra Prasad, Round Table Conferences, Royal Commission on Labour in 1931, Santhals, Satyagraha movement, Saurath Sabha, Saya San Rebellion, Sedition Law, Sinn Fein movement, Sofia Somji, Solapur Riot Case Trials, Statistical data on colonial trade, Swadeshi movement, The Gandhi–Irwin Pact, The Kashmir State (Protection against Disorders) Ordinance 1931, The Unlawful Association Ordinance 1930, Unemployment, Untouchability, Vladimir Lenin, Wickersham Commission.
