Sisir Kumar Das
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Sisir Kumar Das
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Sisir Kumar Das (1936–2003) was a linguist, poet, playwright, translator, comparatist and a prolific scholar of Indian literature. He is considered by many as the "doyen of Indian literary historiographers". Almost singlehandedly, Das built an integrated history of Indian literature composed of many languages, a task that had seemed to many important scholars of Indian literature to be “a historian’s despair”. His three volumes A History of Indian Literature is credited for having devised hither
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Indian linguist, poet, playwright, translator, comparatist and scholar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisir_Kumar_Das
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2013-03-30T08:52:24Z
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2024-09-13T20:19:26Z
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