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1 Chronicling history: Nehru’s interpretation of Buddhism’s trajectory was appreciated and endorsed by global scholars. PTI
Vappala Balachandran
Ex-Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat
On December 21, while addressing the 6th Indo-Japan Samwad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered to set up a composite global library on Buddhist studies for scholars to carry forward “our ancient tradition of spiritual and scholarly exchanges”.
In 1938, French writer-philosopher Andre Malraux had made an almost similar suggestion to Jawaharlal Nehru, who was in Paris after being released from Almora jail on September 3, 1935. Nehru had completed his seventh imprisonment that began on February 12, 1934. Malraux wanted to know how Hinduism could succeed in pushing away an organised and popular religion like Buddhism from India without any major armed conflict and absorbing its principles over a thousand years ago.