INDIA, SRI LANKA AND THE SAARC REGION: HISTORY, POPULAR CULTURE AND HERITAGE

This book examines the historical and socio-cultural connections across the SAARC region, with a special focus on the relationship between India and Sri Lanka. It investigates hitherto unexplored narratives of history, popular culture and intangible heritage in the region to identify the cultural parallels and intersections that link them together. In doing so, the volume moves away from an organised and authorized heritage discourse and encourages possibilities of new understandings and re-interpretation of cross-cultural communication and its sub-texts

based on original ethnographic work, The book discusses themes such as cultural ties between India and Sri Lanka, exchanges between Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka and Satyajit Ray in India, cultural connectivity reflected through mythology and folklore, the influence of Rabindranath Tagore on modern dance in Sri Lanka....