“Pundits” kept Sanskrit scholarship alive in remote settlements as British control swept across India, a major new research project will show. The largely forgotten literary figures and their works—ranging from erotic plays to legal treatises—are neglected treasures of Indian intellectual achievement, argue Cambridge researchers.
Indian literary genius survived British imperialism in forgotten villages, research reveals
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