Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c4.s2.139

v1.c4.s2.139

In the 1930s, the International Academy of Indian Culture located in New Delhi was another institution that engaged in China studies. It was founded by Raghu Vira who began to study Chinese culture and the history of the India-China relationship and developed academic links with China. In 1938, he wrote his work, *Ramayana in China*. In the late 1930s, Fergusson College in Pune opened a centre for China studies. Scholars Bapat and Gokro began to make a comparative study of Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist texts. However, among Indian scholars of China studies in this period, the most prominent was Prabodh Chandra Bagchi. After receiving a masters degree from Calcutta University, he went to France in 1923 to study Chinese under the guidance of the French sinologist Sylvain Levy. From 1945 to 1956, he taught and did research at Visva-Bharati University. He produced many important works on various aspects of the cultural interaction between India and China through history. He also came to China in 1947 and taught there briefly and visited again in 1952.