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² The concept of Greater India as a factor in world-culture was developed at length in the study circles of the Dawn Society, Calcutta, established by Satis Chandra Mukerjee in 1902, and is a special feature of the following works: R. K. Mookerji: *History of Indian Shipping* (London 1911), which is based to a certain extent on the author's articles published in the *Dawn Society's Magazine* (Calcutta, 1906-9). B. K. Sarkar: *Chinese Religion Through Hindu Eyes* (Shanghai 1916), based on personal investigations in China, "The Influence of India in Modern Western Civilization" (*Journal of Race Development*, Clark University, U.S.A. July 1918), *The Futurism of Young Asia* (Berlin 1922), chapter on "International India", *The A. B. C. of Chinese Civilization* (Calcutta 1923, in Bengali). Subsequent publications are noted below:—P. C. Bagchi: *India and China* (Calcutta, 1927), a pamphlet, R. C. Majumdar: *Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East*, Vol. I. *Champa* (Lahore 1927), and "Indo-Javanese Literature" (*Indian Culture*, Calcutta, July 1934); B. R. Chatterjee: *India and Java* (Calcutta, second edition 1933; P. N. Bose: *Indian Colony of Siam* (Lahore 1929); H. B. Sarkar: *Indian Influences on the Literature of Java and Bali* (Calcutta 1934). The *Journal of the Greater India Society* (Calcutta), est, 1934, is likewise to be consulted. See also L. Finot: "Hindu Kingdoms in Indo-China" in the *Indian Historical Quarterly* (Calcutta), December 1925; Sylvain Lévi: *L'Inde et le Monde* (Paris 1927); G. Tucci: *Indo-Tibetica* (Rome) Vol. I. (1932), Vol. II. (1933); Tucci and Ghersi: *Cronaca della Missione Scientifica Tucci nel Tibet Occidentale* (Rome 1934). B. K. Sarkar's English summary of these Italian works is to be seen in the *Indian Historical Quarterly* (Calcutta), June 1934 and 1935. For Central Asia see M. A. Stein: *Ancient Khotan* (London 1907), *Ruins of Desert Cathay* (London 1912) and for Moslem Asia see Sachau: *Alberuni's India* (London 1910).