Thus Flows the Ganges

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Thus Flows the Ganges is like a garland made of varieties of flowers which depicts the Indian culture and civilization for expressing the idea of unity in diversity.
The book contains some learned articles which flowed through various conferences held in Jadavpur University, Asiatic Society in Kolkata, Rajasthan University, Jaipur, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gurukul University, Hardwar and in The All India Philosophical Congress held in Visvabharati-Santinketan and in the Seminar of World Congress of Religion held in Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata. Almost all the papers are based on Indian thought as the River Ganges flows from immemorial time accumulating waters of the river and rivulets of various thoughts and culture especially of the Nineteenth Century Bengal.

SUDHIR KUMAR KARAN (b. 1923)." obtained his MA degree in Modern Language and Literature from the University of Calcutta and received his Ph.D degree. from the same University. As an educationist throughout his life he remained connected with various colleges being placed as Principal of Surividyasagar College, Birbhum (W. Bengal) and Balurghat College, South Dinajpur (W. Bengal) before he joined the University of Burdwan and then the Asiatic Society as Senior Research Fellow in Linguistics.
Formerly, Suniti Kumar Chatterjee Senior Research Fellow in Linguistics, Asiatic Society, Kolkata, and formerly Reader, Burdwan University, he is a leading linguist, folklorists as well as an Indologist. His published books are more than twenty and his papers number more than two hundred, some of which are going to be published by the University of Burdwan very soon. His books and papers mainly cover the fields of Indian language and literature, history, philosophy and folklore. He was honoured by the West Bengal Rajya Academy Prize in 1995 for his commendable work in the field of folklore.

Most of the papers of this book were placed and discussed in various conferences of the All India Oriental Conferences held in Jaipur (Rajasthan University). Gujarat University (Ahmedabad), Pune (Maharashtra) and Hardwar (Gurukul Visvavidyalay), and also in All India Philosophical Congress held in Visva Varati (Santiniketan) and in the Seminars organised by the Asiatic Society and other Universities. For the last of the papers; Thus Flows the Ganges', the author was invited to participate in the All India Religion Congress organised by Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, Calcutta. I am indebted to all these conferences and seminars.
The articles are all about the spirit of Indianism. And the holy river Ganges stands for the spirit of Indian Culture.
As regards the publication of the book I gladly remember the friendly assistance received from Jibitesh Chakraborty M.A.B. Lib Sc (CU) formerly Librarian, Central Library. Income Tax Deptt., Calcutta, and part time lecturer of Library Science of Institute of Librarians (IOL) in Sanskrit College, Calcutta and Prof. Dr. Pranab Mitra, Calcutta.
I am indebted to Sri Ratan Kumar Khan for his full co-operation but for whom this book could not have seen the light of the day in due time. Thanks to Shri K.M. Rai Mittal of the Mittal Publications of Delhi for publishing the book. Now, my full satisfaction depends upon the general readers interested in Indianism.