How the World Wars Inspired a Britisher to study the Mahabharata The mass destruction wrought by two world wars inspired an Englishman, S.C. Nott to make available to the English-speaking world insights from the Mahabharata. He began by selecting from the first two books (Adi and Sambhava) as had been Englished by K.M. Ganguli in 1883. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55351/how-the-world-wars-inspired-a-britisher-to-study-the-mahabharata