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*===William Jones 1746-1794.===
*===Major David Price 1762-1835<br>===
*===Edward Moor (1771-1848)<br>===
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==Individuals==
:A Judge who, in his spare time, translated from Sanskrit and founded the field of historic linguistics.
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(philologist) William Jones (philologist)] Wikipedia
:*[http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/nov/02/chess-sanskrit-persian-jones-old-calcutta/ "Chess & Sanskrit: Persian Jones in Old Calcutta"] by Jeremy Bernstein, 2 November 2010. NYR Blog.
:“Very active and excellent officer" of the Bombay Army<br>
:Author of ''Memoirs of the principal events of Mahommedan history'', translator and collector of historical Persian Manuscripts. Member of the Royal Asiatic Society
:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Memoirs of the early life and service of a field officer on the retired list of the Indian army''] by Major David Price 1839 Google Books
:William Dalrymple, author of ''White Mughals'', in an article <ref> [http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?235550 Moore the Collector] by William Dalrymple. outlookindia.com </ref> states Edward Moor had first come out to India at the age of 11, spoke several Indian languages, and was passionately interested in the cosmology and beliefs of the Hindus. Moor's book ''The Hindu Pantheon''<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5kJDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ''The Hindu Pantheon'']books.google.com </ref> pub 1810 "remains even now a remarkably encyclopaedic and accurate guide to Indian mythology. It brought together almost everything that was then known by European intellectuals about the religion of the Hindus, and contained reliable descriptions, images and genealogies of some 2,000 of the major deities.”
:Edward Moor also wrote ''Hindu infanticide: An account of the measures adopted for suppressing the practice of the systematic murder by their parents of female infants; with incidental remarks on other customs peculiar to the natives of India. Ed., with notes and illustrations'' published 1811. <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=VGULAAAAIAAJ ''Hindu Infanticide'']google.books.com</ref>
:Also refer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Moor Wikipedia] and [https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/298/mode/2up ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'']archive.org ===Henry Creswicke Rawlinson 1810-1895===*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Creswicke_Rawlinson Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet] Wikipedia*[https://archive.org/details/amemoirmajorgen00rawlgoog ''A Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson''] by George Rawlinson 1898 Archive.org. Born 1810, he joined the Bombay Army in 1827. In 1833 he was sent to Persia, the start of a long association with this country. He was recalled to India in 1839 and in 1840 was appointed Political Agent in Western Afghanistan and was involved in the [[1st Afghan War]] until the end of 1842. In October 1843 he was appointed “British Political Agent in Turkish Arabia” 1844-1849 and 1851-1855 where he resumed an interest in Cuneiform Studies**''The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, decyphered and translated; with a memoir on Persian Cuneiform Inscriptions in general and on that of Behistun in particular'' by Henry Creswicke Rawlinson 1846 [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/library/56VR2BC9/pageimg&mode=imagepath&pn=7 ECHO Cultural Heritage Online] Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0lE-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books edition]*Also see [[Iran]]
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