Papers relating to the Devahuti’s research on the cultural, intellectual and literary history of China, the connections between India and China and the travels of Chinese Buddhist monks in India. Papers relating to the Devahuti’s research on the cultural, intellectual and literary history of China, the connections between India and China and the travels of Chinese Buddhist monks in India. They included the following:
1. Excerpts from Frederick Von Schlegel’s books The Philosophy of History: In a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Vienna, London 1846 and Lectures on the History of Literature, London 1859.
2. ‘Chinese Pilgrims in India’ chapter in H. G. Rawlinson’s book Indian Historical Studies, London 1913.
3. ‘Sino-Indian Spiritual Affinity’ by Carsun Chang, The Indo-Asian Culture, April and July 1958.
4. ‘India and China: Ancient Contacts: What India Received from China’ by Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Journal of The Asiatic Society, Vol. I, No. 1, 1959.
5. ‘Development of Chinese Literature’ by Prof. Tan Yun Shan, The Indo-Asian Culture, April 1959.
6. Chapter ‘The Ways of Thinking of The Chinese’ in Hajime Nakamura’s book The Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples, 1960.
7. ‘Buddhist Studies in China and Its Impact on Chinese Literature and Thought’ by Chou Hsiang-Kuang, Chinese Culture, Vol. IV No. 4, March 1963.
8. ‘The Revival of Confucianism’ by Y. C. Koo, Chinese Culture Vol. IV No. 4, March 1963.
9. ‘The Beginnings of Bureaucracy in China: The Origins of the Hsien by H. G. Creel, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 23 No. 2, 1964.
10. Chapter 6 ‘Contemporaries and Near-Contemporaries of Hsüen- tsang and I-tsing’ and appendix ‘On I-tsing’s Account of Fifty-one Monks’ in Sukumar Dutt’s book Buddhist Monks and Monasteries of India: Their History and Their Contribution to Indian Culture, undated.
11. ‘Alphabetical List of Sanskrit Works Translated into Chinese (with the names of translators)’ in Probhat K. Mukherji’s book Indian Literature in China and the Far East, undated.
12. Chinese words in English transliterated into Hindi in Devnagari script.
13. ‘List of the Translators of the Chinese Tripitaka’, undated.
China; cultural history; intellectual history of China; literary history of China; India China connections; Chinese Buddhist monks; Chinese literature; Hsuen- tsang; I-tsing; Frederick Von Schlegal; The Philosophy of History; H. G. Rawlinson, Suniti Kumar CHaterjee; Tan Yun Shan; Hajime Nakamura; translated; Devnagari; Sanskrit; mondasteries; Indian culture; Tripitaka
3. ‘The Literatures of Modern India’ by Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, The Indo-Asian Culture, July 1955.
4. ‘Yeats and Rabindranath: A Study in Tradition and Modern Poetry’ by Naresh Guha, Quest, Winter 1963.
5. Excerpt of chapter I ‘The Social Revolt in Modern India’ and chapter II ‘The Uniqueness of the Social Reform Movement’ in Charles Herman Heimsath’s book Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.
Literary history of India; Cultural history of India; Suniti Kumar Chatterjee; Modern Indian literature; Yeats; Rabindranath Tagore; Ooetry; Naresh Guha
Damodar P. Singhal’s study materials on Sufism and Islam in India. Includes writings entitled:
1. ‘Ibn Battuta 1304 – 1378 AD’ in H. G. Rawlinson’s book Indian Historical Studies, London 1913.
2. ‘Islam in India’ by Dr. S. Muhammad H. Nainar, The Indo-Asian Culture, October 0.1953.
3. ‘Indian Muslims’ by Humayun Kabir, The Indo-Asian Culture, January 1956.
4. ‘Sufism – A Brief Survey of Islamic Mysticism’ by Osman Hyder Mirza, The Indo-Asian Culture, October 1958.
5. ‘Sufism and the Indian Philosophies’ by Sardar Ikbal Ali Shah, The Indo-Asian Culture, April 1962.
Sufism; Islam in India; Ibn Battuta; Indian Muslims; Humayun Kabir; Islamic Mysticism, Indian philosophy
Jewish Folklore: East and West’ by Louis Ginzberg in Independence, Convergence and Borrowing in Institutions, Thought and Art, Harvard University Press (1937), ‘Theories of the Folktale’ in Stith Thompson’s book The Folktale (1946) and ‘The Distribution and Origins of Board Games’ by H. J. R. Murray in A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess, Oxford University Press (1952).
Jewish Folklore; Louis Ginzberg; Folktale; Stith Thompson; Board Games; H. J. R. Murray; Chess
