History of the Center : The Centre for Translation and Literary Geography, under the Faculty of Arts, was established by the Honourable Syndicate, University of Calcutta, in its meeting held on 2nd August, 2024 and approved by the concerned authority on 24th September, 2024. The primary goal of this centre is to initiate a dialogue between geography, culture, and the concept of space, with the long-standing tradition of translation in India. Translation is an age long practice in India even before people recognised the activity as translation. Therefore, India observes various unique terms associated with the activity of translating. This centre intends to work on diverse nomenclatures of translation available in India to explore the different nuances associated with the concept of translation. The centre also aims to create a pool of translation practitioners who are not only equipped with modern tools and resources for practical translation but are also knowledgeable about the diverse translation traditions practised in India. This centre focuses to promote multilingualism and translation communication among various marginal languages, especially the non-scheduled languages and the languages of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) of India. In addition, through various programmes, the centre seeks to establish literary geography and the broader concept of space, as a foundational domain for translation in a pluralistic country like India. As Pramatha Choudhury describes this era as the “era of Tarjama”, and Foucault describes this era as an "epoch of space", the centre aims to explore how evolving geographical space of India is constantly being shaped by translation, and how marginalised spaces need to be integrated into the Indian literary system.
The centre also focuses on the study of various literature associated with particular geographical and cultural identities. This centre believes in unique translation methods like Collaborative, Classroom and On-site translation to build community dialogues and to find translation in a wider scope of peace making.
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Founder Coordinator:
Dr Mrinmoy Pramanick, MPhil, PhD
Sahitya Akademi Awardee and Charles Wallace Fellow
