Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.t1.15

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Major of Urdu and Sanskrit Pali successively in the year 1954 and 1960 on the basis of Hindi and recruited students for the first time, teaching language and Indian history, literature and so on. In 1955, the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of CAS was established with the subsidiary institution engaging in Indian history and culture research. In the year 1959, Beijing Broadcasting Institute (present-day Communication University of China) was established, gradually opening a series of Indian languages majors like Tamil, Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, Assamese, etc., in 1960s. Besides, due to the need of diplomacy and cultural exchanges, in 1950s, the Chinese government selected and sent a group of students to India, Soviet Union and other countries to learn Indian languages, including Hindi scholars Liu Anwu and Liu Guonan and so on who studied successively in Delhi University and Banaras Hindu University.