Scholars or antiquarians
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Asiatic Society of Bengal
"As Charles Allen shows in his book, under Sir William Jones, the Asiatic Society of Bengal became the scholarly nerve centre that brought together all the different amateur enthusiasts busily working at uncovering the deepest roots of India's lost pre-Islamic history. In the society's Calcutta premises were collated reports sent in from a huge range of eccentric figures working away at translating Buddhist scrolls or ancient rock inscriptions, Gandharan coins or Tibetan mythologies, far separated from each other in remote outposts between the highest peaks of the Himalayas in Tibet and Nepal, through the arid plains of the Deccan to the thickest jungles of 18th-century Burma and Ceylon.” [1]
Individuals
- William Jones 1746-1794.
- A Judge who, in his spare time, translated from Sanskrit and founded the field of historic linguistics.
- William Jones (philologist) Wikipedia
- "Chess & Sanskrit: Persian Jones in Old Calcutta" by Jeremy Bernstein, 2 November 2010. NYR Blog.
- Major David Price 1762-1835
- “Very active and excellent officer" of the Bombay Army
- Author of Memoirs of the principal events of Mahommedan history, translator and collector of historical Persian Manuscripts. Member of the Royal Asiatic Society
- David Price East India Company Officer Wikipedia
- Obituary , page 529 of Memoirs of the early life...
- 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
- Edward Moor (1771-1848)
- William Dalrymple, author of White Mughals, in an article [2] 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[3] 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. [4]
- Also refer Wikipedia and Dictionary of Indian Biographyarchive.org
External Links
Scholars , Antiquaries and Bibliographers Bartleby.com End of section includes details related to studies in India.
References
- ↑ The Buddha and the Sahibs by Charles Allen (2002) reviewed by William Dalrymple, author of White Mughals, in The Guardian, and in The Spectator.
- ↑ Moore the Collector by William Dalrymple. outlookindia.com
- ↑ The Hindu Pantheonbooks.google.com
- ↑ Hindu Infanticidegoogle.books.com