Harvard University and Cambridge Town had come into being because of the efforts of several intellectuals ‘banished’ from England. Setting up colony in a new continent, Boston Tea Party and naming of New England are topics from history texts. The old students of Cambridge University of England had left their country. But they had not been able to forget their 800-year-old university. Therefore, they named the town as Cambridge. Harvard University had also been cast in the mould of Cambridge University when it was set up.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sitakant Mahapatra
Educated in Utkal, Allahabad and Cambridge Universities, Sitakant Mahapatra is a well-known anthropologist and a major voice in Indian poetry. He has been a fellow in the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard. Perhaps the best known interpreter of the oral poetry of the tribes of India he has earlier edited, with critical introductions, nine anthologies of such poetry. He has published numerous articles on the anthropology of development and oral literature in journals in India and abroad and chaired sessions in International Ethnological sciences. A doctorate in Development Anthropology, Oxford University Press ahs published his seminal works Modernisation and Ritual and The Realm of the Sacred: Verbal Symbolism and Ritual Structure. A Jnanpith Award winner for his poetry, he was earlier President of UNESCO’s Inter-governmental Committee of the World Decade for Cultural Development. Currently Chairman of the National Book Trust of India, he lives with his wife at Bhubaneswar, his home-town.
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