Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.82

v2.c10.82

Premchand’s *Nirmala* (1959) is directly translated from Hindi, the collection of poetry—the *Devastation of Prison* from Urdu (1958), and Sarat Chandra Chatterjee’s *Unmarriageable Daughter* from Bengali (1956). During this period, a large number of Tagore’s works were translated, mostly from English and a few from Bengali and Urdu. In 1961, in order to celebrate the 100ᵗʰ anniversary of Tagore’s birth, People’s Literature Publishing House published 10 volumes of *Tagore’s Collected Works* by several translators, which had a long-standing and broad influence among readers.