The Thoreau Society Research Collections 
at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods


  A Finding Aid

  • Orientalism

Box 127-129

                                                                                 

Miscellaneous Box 128
Ames, Van Meter "Thoreau: Taoist in America" [from Zen and American Thought (University of Hawaii Press, 1962)]

The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon [ATQ 20]

Bhatia, Kamala "The Mysticism of Thoreau and Its Affinity with Indian Thought" [pamphlet]

Cameron, Kenneth "Emerson, Thoreau and Asia's Tales" [ESQ 1966]

Carpenter, Frederic I. "American Transcdentalism in India (1961)" [ESQ 1963]

Chandrasekharan, K.R. "Thoreau's Literary Art and His Philosophy" [from Indian Essays in American Thought (Popular Prakashan)]

Christy, Arthur "Thoreau and Oriental Asceticism" [Aryan Path, March 1935]

Deshmukh, D.G. "Thoreau and Indian Thought: Summary of the thesis submitted by...] [typescript, 1972]

Farcé, Gilles “L’Éthique Immoraliste de Thoreau à la Lumière de l"Hindouisme" [Etudes Anglaise, 1984] [French]

Fields, Rick "The Restless Pioneers: Emerson, Thoreau & Whitman" [Zero 1979]

Box 127
Gandhi, Mohandas K. [Mahatma Gandhi]
  • Bright, J.S. Gandhian Thought [photocopy: Pankaj Publications, 1976]
  • Ezekiel, Nissim "Thoreau and Gandhi" [Speech, Thoreau Festival at Nassau Community College, NY, 14 May 1967]
  • Ezekiel. Nissim "The Thoreau-Gandhi Syndrome" [typescript, 1967, and Quest, 1968]
  • Gandhi, Mahatma. Selected pages from Collected Works 
  • Green, Martin [photocopied excerpts from Gandhi: Voice of a New Age Revolution (Continuum, 1973)]
  • Harding, Walter. "Gandhi and Thoreau" [typescript, for TSB 23]
  • Hendrick, George:
    • "Emerson and Gandhi" [ESQ, I Quarter 1956]
    • "Ganghiana at TxU" [Library Chronicle of the University of Texas Fall 1954]
    • "Henry David Thoreau: The Man Who Moulded the Mahatma's Mind" review [typescript for TSB?]
    • "The Influence of Thoreau & Emerson on Gandhi's Satyagraha" [Reprinted form Gandhi Marg, July 1959]
    • "The Influence of Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience' on Gandhi's Satyagraha" [Reprinted from The New England Quarterly, December 1956]
  • Hunt, James D.:
    • "Gandhi, Thoreau, and Adin Ballou" [Journal of the Liberal Ministry, Fall 1969]
    • Hunt, James D. "Thoreau and Gandhi: A Re-Evaluation of the Legacy" [Gandhi Marg, October 1970]
  • Livingston, Mary Walton "Yours Sincerely Mohandas K. Gandhi"[Prologue, Fall 1969]
  • McLaughlin, Elizabeth T. "Thoreau and Gandhi: The Date" [ESQ 1966]
  • Mehta, Ved:
    • "Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles. I: Subtler and More Lasting Shapes" [New Yorker, 10 May 1976]
    • "Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles. II: In the Steps of thte Autobiographer and His Biographies" [New Yorker, 17 May 1976]
  • Power, Shahed:
    • "Gandhi's Reading of Thoreau" [typescript for TSB189]
    • "Thoreau's Writings & Gandhi" [Unpublished submission for TSB]
  • Pyarelal "Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhiji" [New Outlook, May 1957]
  • Rao, E. Nageswara. "Thoreau and Gandhi: A Comparison" [The Aryan Path, August 1966]
  • Reddy, V. Narayan Karan "Thoreau Gandhi Vinoba" [Sahitilata Publications, 1962]
  • Reid, John T. "Thoreau and India" [Unpublished submission for Eugene Timpe's Thoreau Abroad
  • Sesshachari, C. from Gandhi and the American Scene [Bombay 1969]
  • Verma, Prakash "Satyagraha: The Non-Violence of Gandhi" [South Dakota Review Summer 1968]

For other Mahatma Gandhi items, 
search the Henley Library catalog

Box 129
Gundappa, DoVo "Thoreau" [Swarajya, 1963]

Herman, A.L. "Satyagraha: A New Indian Word for Some Old Ways of Western Thinking" [Philosophy East & West, April 1969] 

Hoch, David G.

  • "Annals and Perennials: A Study of Cosmogonic Imagery in Thoreau" [dissertation abstract]
  • "Buddhist Analogues in Thoreau" [typescript for SouthAsian Review, July 1981]
  • "Ex Oriente Lux: Thoreau's Allusions to the Emblem of the Oriental Translation Fund and a Bibliography of the Fund's Publications Through 1854" [The Serif, Spring 1972]
  • "Thoreau's Use of The Hindoos" [typescript fro TSB 114]

Jackson, Carl T. 

  • "Further Transcendental Explorations: Thoreau, Alcott and Parker" [from Oriental Religions and American Thought (Greenwood, 1981)]
  • "The Orient in Post-Bellum American Thought: Three Pioneer Popularizers" [American Quarterly, unidentified issue]

Jahanpour, Farhang 

  • "Oriental Influence in American Literature" [Revue de la Faculte des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 1974]
  • "Oriental Influence in American Literature During the Nineteenth Century" [from Other Voices, Other Views (Greenwood, 1978)]

Jeske, Jeffrey M. "Walden and the Confucian Four Books" [ATQ 1974]

Kasegawa, Koh

  • "Thoreau and 'Chinese Four Books'" [Thoughts Current in English Literature, 1981] [Japanese]
  • "Thoreau and 'Sayings of Confucius'" [Journal of College Literature, 30 January 1982] [Japanese]
  • "Thoreau and the Bhagavad-Gita" [Thoughts Current in English Literature, December 1963] [Japanese]

 

Box 127

Liang, Kuo-Chien "Thoreau, Taoism and Confucianism" [typescript: Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, 1972]

Leidecker, Kurt F. "That Sad Pagan Thoreau" [The Visva-Bharati Quarterly, November 1951-January 1952]

MacLachlan, C.H. 

  • "The Spiritual Life of Henry D. Thoreau (I)" [Vedanta and the West, May 1968]
  • "The Spiritual Life of Henry D. Thoreau (II)" [Vedanta and the West, July 1968]
  • "Vivekananda and  Thoreau" [Vedanta and the West, November 1967]

Miller, Barbara Stoler "Why Did Henry David Thoreau Take the Bhagavad-Gita to Walden Pond?" [Parabola, September 1987]

Mueller, Roger C. 

  • "A Significant Buddhist Translation by Thoreau" [typescript for TSB 138]
  • "Transcendental Periodicals and the Orient" [ESQ ?]

Munakata, Kuniyoshi "The Most Remarkable American: R.H. Blyth on Henry David Thoreau" [Otsuka Review, July 1972]

Mukherjee, Sujit "Thoreau in India" [typescript for Eugene Timpe's Thoreau Abroad]

Nagley, Winfield E. "Thoreau on Attachment, Detachment and Non-Attachment" [Philosophy East and West, January 1954]

Nehru, Braj Kumar "Henry David Thoreau : A Tribute" [typescript, delivered at NYU Hall of Fame, 6 May 1962, and as printed in: India News, 11 May 1962]

Oliver, Egbert S. "Thoreau Finds the Dawn in Asia" [Korean Survey, November 1953]

Patri, Umesh Prasad "The Impact of Indian Scriptures on American Transcendentalism" [dissertation, Ph.D., Utkal University, 1981]

Reid, John T. "Henry David Thoreau" [from Indian Influences in American Literature and Thought (Indian Council for Cultural Relations, 1954)]

Rolland, Romain "America at the Time of Vivekananda's First Visit" [from The Life of Vivekananda (India, 1953)]

Sabherwal, T.K. "Thoreau's Tryst with Hinduism" [typescript, rejected, for TSB]

Sanborn, Franklin B. "Thoreau and Confucius: To the Editor of The Nation] [The Nation, 12 May 1910]

Sarma, Sreekrishna "A Short Study of the Oriental Influence Upon Henry David Thoreau with Special Reference to his Walden" [Jahrbuch fur Amerikanstudien 1956]

Sarveshananda, Swami "Thoreau: The First 'Sannyasin of America'" [Prabuddha Bharata, March 1985]

Seshachari, Neila "A Study of Thoreau's Assimilation of Hindu Philosophy" [Utah Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, Proceedings, 1981]

Sharma, Mohan Lal 

  • "Cholmondeley's Gift for Thoreau" [Journal of Ohio Folklore Society, 1968]
  • "The 'Oriental Estate' Especially the Bhagavada-Gita in American Literature" [Forum (Houston) 1969]

Shinbo, Satoru "Thoreau on the Oriental Thought" [Studies in Comparative Philosophy, 1979] [Japanese]

Shrinibas, Tripta "The Influence of Hindu Scriptures on the Writings of Henry David Thoreau" [typescript; dissertation abstract]

Simon, Gary "What henry David Didn't Know About Lao Tzu: Taoist Parallels in Thoreau" [Literature east and West, 1973]

Stein, William Bysshe "A Bibliography of Hindu and Buddhist Literature Available to Thoreau Through 1854" [ESQ 47]

Ta-Cheng, Wu "T'ao Ch'ien and Thoreau: A Note on Two Different Attitudes Toward Nature" [Tamkamg Review October 1971]

Trikha, Manorama B. "Influence of te Bhagavadgita on Henry David Thoreau" [from Influences of Bhagavadgita on Literature Written in English (Shalabh Prahasham)]

Williams, Eric David "Thoreau: Prophet of World Faith" [The Aryan Path, April 1968]

 

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