The Times of India Annual magazine was published by the Times of India Press in Bombay. The magazine was published from 1919 to 1941 and again from 1949 to 1979. Between 1942 and 1948, the journal was called - Indian Annual. These pre-independence issues are particularly attractive with numerous full bleed colour plates of paintings tipped-in on thick black sheets and paintings used as advertisements by some of the well known master artists and illustrators, apart from the interesting articles of that period. Individual plates are 9 1/2" x 7" full bleed mounted on card stock magazine pages and cover protected by a tissue page, suitable for framing. 1939 issue: Times of India Annual 1 - The Return from the well (by Capt. Gladstone Solomon) 2 - Festival of Ram Lila (by W S Bagdatopulos) 3 - Bharat Melao (by W S Bagdatopulos) 4 - Eve of the eclipse of the moon (by W S Bagdatopulos) 5 - Jai Jangal Dhar Badshah 6 - A Typical scene in the Sind Valley, Kashmir (by P G Sirur) 7 - The Famous Golden Temple of the Sikhs at Amritsar 8 - The Muharram