Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t63.2

v2.c15.s2.t63.2

Dutt first went to China as part of a cultural delegation led by Vijayalakshmi Pandit in 1950. Thereafter, he was among the earliest Indian students who studied in China in the 1950s. He remained in China from 1956 to 1958. The title of his doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Delhi through the Indian School of International Studies in 1961 was - “The Revolution of 1911 in China – Its Origins and Impact”. At that time, there were hardly any Indian scholars working seriously on modern China, and almost no one who used original Chinese language materials to produce a scholarly study on it as Dutt did.