Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri.
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The term 'Renaissance' has been used to refer to various movements in cultural history-originally in Europe, and later, by extension, to other civilizations. 'The' Renaissance of fif- teenth- and sixteenth-century Europe provides a model that has been extended and modified to suit other periods and countries. In particular, the term has been applied, not without controversy, to the intensive social reform and cultural development of nineteenth-century India, especially Bengal.
This book brings together articles by thirteen Italian and Indian scholars on the European and Indian Renaissances. Each essay addresses a specific aspect of one or both movements. Between them, they cover the work of major writers in Europe (Dante, Petrarch) and India (Bankim, Vidyasagar, Tagore); cultural and socio-historic movements like humanism, nationalism, the Reformation and Orientalism; and crucial social sectors like the growth of the vernaculars, the changing status of women and the pursuit of science. But more fundamentally, all the essays address the larger issue of a 'Renaissance' as a cultural paradigm valid for all times and all nations. Taken as a whole, they make a notable contribution to the emerging world-wide debate on the nature of a 'Renaissance' as a universal cultural phenomenon.
 
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