1930/04/01 by E. S. Craighill Handy · 5 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography #Indian and Buddhist Studies #Indian History and Philosophy #The Renaissance #Ancient history #History #Geography #Anthropology #Sociology #Art history
paper · doi:10.2307/2750560
published in Pacific Affairs 3(4), 362-369 (University of British Columbia)
openalex publication_date 1930/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/17
TODAY everyone is prepared to recognize the significance of a cultural revival amongst a people with respect to the rebirth and stimulation of national or folk consciousness and idealism. The part played by the Irish literary revival in giving unity and vitality to Irish nationalism stands in the West as a notable exemplification; and the same is true elsewhere in Europe today among other peoples of recently emancipated national and folk consciousness, such as the Czechs. But Europe is no more unique in this than in anything else in human affairs. Though slower of movement, the Orient is traveling the same road, led on by both Eastern and Western men and women of vision. And nowhere in the Orient is the spirit of cultural renaissance more definite than in India and the vast appendage of Indian civilization which we call Indo-China, where, in the first thousand years of the Christian era, Indian culture inundated the whole country to the very borders of the Chinese Empire.