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Anu Kumar

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How a young New Yorker stranded in Calcutta became the first American editor of a Sanskrit text

After surviving a shipwreck, Fitzedward Hall went on to edit and translate numerous old Indian texts.

Anu Kumar
· Aug 09, 2022 · 11:30 am
A remarkably opulent country: Observations of the first American to write a book on India

After living in India for seven years in the 1770s, Bartholomew Burges wrote a book to help American merchants explore trade opportunities in the country.

Anu Kumar
· Jul 06, 2022 · 11:30 am
The story of Gertrude Emerson, the globe-trotting adventurer who made India her home

She was a ‘gifted writer and a scholar’. But what set her apart was her ability to interpret the East for the West when prejudice was rampant.

Anu Kumar
· May 28, 2022 · 11:30 am

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