BRIDGING WORLDS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WESTERN AND INDIAN LITERATURE

Abstract

Influence and intersexuality scholars will find a wealth of material in India's colonial past and post-colonial present. Although India's literary impact on the West may be traced back to the development of "orientalism," this trend was quickly reversed once colonial power was established on the subcontinent. While some Indian critics were either too quick to accept or dismiss Western influence, the varied responses of Indian writers provide richer evidence of this impact and of intersexuality at work. Various Western and Indian intellectual writings The Panchatantra, a collection of fables written in Sanskrit in the fifth century A.D. and afterwards translated into Middle Persian, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, has also been translated into a broad variety of modern European languages, such as Czech (1528) and Italian (1533). It seems that the "EzourVedam" remained an outlier until Voltaire identified it at the end of the eighteenth century.