Sylvain Lévi and Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan, November 1921 - March 1922, photograph, paper print.
In 1921, Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for #literature, welcomed Professor Sylvain Lévi, who had held the Chair of Sanskrit Language and Literature at the Collège de France since 1894, to the Bengal University of Vishva Bharati.
Find out more about the two men's meeting and the journey of this great Indianist in a new article on Colligere, the Collège de France's library and archive notebook: https: //archibibscdf.hypotheses.org/9984
