An experimentalmovement in arts and literature in West Bengal, India, during the period 1961-1965, claiming that India was in the grip of sarvagrass, meaning that its culture fed on all the morsels available to it from all over the world.
Origin
The word was derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's line "In The Sowre Hungry Tyme".
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