INDIAN WRITERS IN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST ALL INDIA WRITERS CONFERENCE JAIPUR, 1945 EDITED BY K. R, SRINIVASA IYENGAR, M.A., D. LITT., Professor of English, Andhra University, Waltair. INTRODUCTION THE BACKGROUND The AllIndia Centre of the P.E.N. had been in existence for five years when, on its behalf, Shrimati Sophia Wadia, its Founder, extended a warm invitation to the International P.E.N. Club to hold its Congress in India in 1940. The Congress was to have been held in the ordinary course in Tokyo, but at the time of the Prague Congress in 1938, the Japanese Centre withdrew its earlier invitation. This was Indias opportunity, and Sophia Wadia seized it. She now suggested that the Congress might be held in Mysore, and promptly Sir Mirza Ismail, then Mysores Dewan, accepted the suggestion: The prospect of having amidst us such a distinguished body of writers from all the world over is one that should commend your proposal to acceptance. 1, therefore, hereby extend on behalf...

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