
India and World Literature
Author: Abhai MauryaPublisher: Indian Council for Cultural RelationsYear: 1990Language: EnglishPages: 702ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185434077 DescriptionThis volume incorporates most of the papers presented for discussion at the International Symposium on 'India and World Literature attended by 300 eminent scholars, Indologists and lovers of Oriental thought and culture from different parts of the world. While translating Kalidas's Shakuntala into Russian in 1792, the eminent Russian historian and writer Nikolai Karamzin wrote a foreword in which he among other things said: The creative spirit does not reside in Europe only. It is a citizen of the Universe. Man is everywhere a man, everywhere he has a sensitive heart and in the mirror of his imagination he holds both Heaven and Earth. These words embodied the quintessence and leitmotif towards organizing the International Symposium on 'India and World Literature'. The concept of 'World Literature' has been exercising the minds of li