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. The Making of Western Indology explains and evaluates Colebrooke's role as the founder of modern Indology. The book discusses how Colebrooke embodies the significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on eighteenth-century colonial expansion, to the professional, transnational ethos of nineteenth-century intellectual life and scholarly enquiry. It covers his career with the East India Company, from a young writer to member of the supreme council and theorist of the Bengal government. Highlighting how his unprecedented familiarity with a broad range of literature established him as the leading scholar of Sanskrit and president of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, it shows how Colebrooke went on to found the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and set standards for western Indology. Written by renowned academics in the field of Indology, and drawing on new sources, this biography is a useful contribution to the reassessment of Oriental studies that is currently taking place.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9781138784178
eBay Product ID (ePID)
185037094
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Ludo Rocher, Rosane Rocher
Publication Name
The Making of Western Indology: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences, History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
16 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
363g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ludo Rocher, Rosane Rocher
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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