Udayana: New Horizons in History, Classics and Inter-Cultural Studies
Udayana the present festschrift, is a gift to an esteemed scholar of ancient Greek and Indian history. It has been prepared in the honour by a host of renowned historian and budding scholars who immensely appreciate the contribution of professor Udal Prakash Arora, his vast scholarship and his graceful personality. Professor U.P. Arora is a pioneer scholar of the Graeco-Indian studies, and hence, the felicitation volume maintains an inclination towards the Greek interlude in Indian history, the Graeco-Indian interaction, and India in the world context. The classics-epic poetry and drama-and the classical trend have been the salient features in ancient Indian and Greek world. The aspect Indian and Greek world. The aspect of the relevance of classics in modern world has been brought into focus and in debate by the brought in to focus and in debate by the felicitated scholar, recently at the turn of the millennium. The volume comprises of six parts. The First Part is the 'Felicitation' with biographical material, reminiscences, compliments and blessings. The Second Part concerns the 'Classical and Graeco-Indian Studies' with 18 scholarly papers. The Third Part focuses upon 'Indian Classics and Wisdom' and highly merited articles are included in it. Fourth Part places 'India and the world Context' presents select valuable contributions, some of which relate to the medieval and modern history. The Fifth Part of the volume, 'Religion, Society, Art and Archaeology' have excellent articles on the specialized themes like archaeology, art, architecture, numismatics etc. The Sixth Part comprises of learned papers written in Hindi language, which not only possess merit in historical content but also in literary merit. The volume shall prove useful and valuable to all lovers of knowledge because of its rare collection.
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The felicitation volume on Udayana: New Horizons... is a remarkable tribute to a rare scholar who spent an entire lifespan creating a new discipline on Indo Hellenic Studies. Apart from the biographical sketches of Prof U.P. Arora, the volume contains some very insightful papers on this narrowly defined but historically important subject. It could have been useful if some one had studied the reasons why Greece could not remain in Indian memory during contemporary history and how the exposition of Indo Hellenic history could be a guide to the new emerging India.
Its a wonderful collection of essays in Honour of a Great Scholar of Graeco Indian Studies. Congratulations and many thanks to Editors of the book for such academic contribution to this highly important and emerging field of knowledge.
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Abhay Kumar Singh