Proceedings of the 8th International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences
Year: 2024
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Tracing India and Japan’s Maritime Historical and Cultural Connections
Yukti Panwar
ABSTRACT:
This paper would be focusing on some prominent historical, cultural, and people – to – people connections and interactions between India and Japan until the end of World War II. The objective of the paper is to reflect upon the connections between India and Japan, facilitated through the maritime domain. In other words, this paper seeks to highlight the focus on the direct and lesser-known historical connections between India and Japan. These connections go back to Buddhism and Buddhist literature, Sanskrit and other linguistic connections, similarities between Hinduism and Shintoism, and Indians and Japanese who have travelled to the other nation over the passage of time. Some of these people, during the nineteenth and twentieth century, for example, include Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda.
keywords: India – Japan Relations, Maritime History, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, Sanskrit