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At the threshold of the Enlightenment – what a Russian traveller saw and Indian writer describedтезисы доклада
- Автор: Guzel Strelkova
- Сборник: Twelfth International Congress on the Enlightenment
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- Год издания: 2007
- Издательство: Universite de Montpellier III
- Местоположение издательства: France
- Аннотация: The paper represents two points of view on India at the epoch of Enlightenment and especially on Benares – religious capital of Hindus. The middle of the 19-th century was the time when the epoch of Enlightenment, which for India started a few decades earlier in Calcutta, was slowly spreading on other regions of Indian Subcontinent. A Russian nobleman, Prince Alexey Saltykov traveled through the whole of India twice. He wrote “Letters on India” illustrated by his own sketches and paintings. Written in French and initially published in France, the book by A.Saltykov was published in Russian translation only in 1850 (without illustrations).This is a splendid source of information on India of that time, and Benares in particular. Saltykov was a very talented and interested observer and his opinion and descriptions of India made by such an “outsider” are very important. Another point of view belongs to “insider”. One of the most prominent personalities of Indian Enlightenment is Bharatendu Harishchandra who is called the Father of ‘Modern’ Hindi and whom George Grierson, the first important foreign historian of literature in the Indian languages, described as “the most celebrated of the native poets”. Bharatendu wrote poetry but he is mainly celebrated for being a pioneer dramatist and journalist. His creative writings consist of more than ten dramas, many essays, travelogues, biographical sketches and books on history and antiques. Most of his brilliant and very short live time (he died at the age of 35) Bharatendu spent in his native Benares, the city which from time immemorial was a heart of Hinduism, and attracted not only a lot of pilgrims, but merchants, adventurers and talented artists. Thanks to Bharatendu, Benares became a city of Enlightenment and capital of Modern Hindi literature. In this paper, on the basis of some established and published by Bharatendu periodicals ( Kavi Vachan Sudha, Harishchandra Magazine and Bala Bodhini) and his dramas (Prem Jogini, Bharat Durdasha and Andher nagari) I attempt to demonstrate how ideas of Enlightenment inspired Bharatendu.
- Добавил в систему: Стрелкова Гюзэль Владимировна