Prof. Rebecca Manring delivered the valedictory lecture at the two-day seminar, “Revisiting Acharya Sukumar Sen: Exploring Linguistic, Literary, Cultural Paradigms: 125th Birth Anniversary Celebration of Professor Sukumar Sen” hosted by the Faculty of Arts at Calcutta University. Focussing on Acharya Sen’s impact on scholars outside Bengal, Manring discussed her 2001 project microfilming his personal manuscript collection and how that work led to her translation of Rūparāma’s epic Dharma-maṅgala. She described the work of the group of Middle Bengali scholars from around the world who meet annually for ten days to read each other’s texts and learn from the collective wisdom of the group.
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