A presentation by Hari Vasudevan, Director of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, India.
This multimedia presentation treats encounters between South Asia, its immediate neighbourhood and a spectrum of communities across the globe. These encounters, not nation-specific but regional, are fleshed out through the journey of the mid 15th century Russian traveler, Afanasii Nikitin via southern Russia, the Caspian coast, Iran and the Persian Gulf to India. In his own time, from the copyist who gave perspective to Nikitin’s notes, and from Indian encounters In the 19th century, among Russian scholars and publicists and British and Indian readers In the 20th century, at the inception of “Indo-Soviet friendship,” in literature and film In the 21st, the Nikitin Expedition (2006-7).
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