DDS Subject File No. 1

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Name of the Collection	Devahuti and Damodar Singhal collection
Folder/Categories	Subject Files-1846-1984
Sub-folder/Sub-category	Cultural and Intellectual History, 1846-1964
File No. /Acc. No.	1
Abstract	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.
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Keywords	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
Start Date “Period From”	19 January 1905
End Date “Period To”	17 May 1905
Extent	185 pp.
Item type/Format	Typed and Photocopy
Language	English
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Donor	Veena Sachdev (Devahuti Damodar Svaraj Trust)
Donation Date	March 2018
Custodian	Ashoka Archives of Contemporary India, Ashoka University, Sonepat (India)
Right/Copyright	Donor