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dated November 27, 1953: Russian version of Arthasastra

The 2,000-year-old Hindu classic of savvy political wisdom, Chanakya's Arthasastra, had been made available in the Russian language by Soviet Orientalists who undertook the translation, according to a Tass message received in London. Soviet scholars had already come out with Russian language translations of Valmiki's Ramayana and the Vyasa Mahabharata epics under the auspices of Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

The Institute was then engaged in work to bring out a Russian book on Hindi grammar and two large dictionaries; Russian-Hindi and Russian-Urdu, each containing some 50,000 words. India was very much on the Soviet agenda.

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