Making of western Indology : Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company

"For thirty years in India at the cusp of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an administrator and scholar with the East India Company. This book explains and evaluates Colebrooke's position as the founder of modern Indology.The book discusses how Colebrook...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rocher, Rosane
Other Authors: Rocher, Ludo
Format: Printed Book
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Royal Asiatic Society books
Subjects:
Indologists
Sanskrit philologists
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