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Croatian-Indian Links: Thirty Chapters for Thirty Years of Diplomatic Relations (1992-2022)

The publication Croatian-Indian Links: Thirty Chapters for Thirty Years of Diplomatic Relations (1992–2022) marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between and India and Croatia and highlights a legacy in which the contributions of our writers, scholars, artists, travellers, politicians are unified in one volume. Some chapters in the volume present certain important individuals and others present some themes or groups of individuals. The first chapter, devoted to politics and diplomacy consists of four topics: general topic of political and economic ties between India and Croatia, as well as three important figures for the development of political and diplomatic relations: Stjepan Radić who was significantly influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, Josip Broz Tito who worked closely with India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in the non- alignment movement and Drago Štambuk, the first Croatian Ambassador to India. The second chapter is devoted to Croatian missionaries in India. First is Nikola Rattkay (1601–1662), a Jesuit missionary on the northwest coast of India ; Filip Vesdin, known by his monastic name Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomeao (1748–1806), is the author of the first printed Sanskrit grammar in Europe (1798). The other three missionaries covered in this chapter are Pavao Mesarić, Antun Vizjak and Ante Gabrić, members of the mission in Bengal. The third chapter, which deals with literary and cultural ties, opens with an overview of the literary relationships between Croatia and India. It is less known that many Croatian writers were impressed and influenced by India. Thus, India is present in the works of Pero Budmani, Tin Ujević, Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, Vesna Krmpotić, Josip Hitrec and Antun Mihanović. There is also the painter Kristian Kreković, who portrayed Mahatma Gandhi, Croatian mathematicians influenced by the famous Indian mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan and religious groups and groups inspired by Hinduism, which are strongly present in Croatian society. The last bloc includes experts in Indian studies led by Radoslav Katičić, who in 1959, together with Buddhologist Čedomil Veljačić and literary theorist Svetozar Petrović, founded the study of Indology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. This group of Indologists also includes Milka Jauk-Pinhak, Zdravka Matišić, Rada Iveković, Ružica Čičak-Chand, Karmen Bašić, Mislav Ježić, Klara Goenc-Moačanin and other active members of the Department of Indology and Far Eastern Studies.

croatian-indian links ; diplomacy ; indology ; missionaries ; foreign politics

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