09-05-2006, 11:46 PM
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Into this mix we need to throw in Hegel and his work "Philosophy of History". He is the one who says Indians dont have a sense of "History". I have the feeling that Hegel is the precursor to the AIT. While Max Mueller gave it form.
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The entire time period of this research and awareness until Max Muller is more than 100 years.
When the sanskrit language was discovered in early 1700s it took them more than 100 years for them to come to terms with an alternate history from their own world view.
These Indian histories were pre historic for them and too complicated and Hegel makes a statement that Indians dont have any history. The combined work of all the orientalists ( around 50 of them from 1700) led them to get an idea of how to keep the Indian history isolated from the western history including Greek and Roman.
They had to maintain the integrity of Biblical history and timeline and also give a credible explanation for the origin of the European languages. This was very important for them for making sure that the history of Europe does not collapse under the new research.
Into this mix we need to throw in Hegel and his work "Philosophy of History". He is the one who says Indians dont have a sense of "History". I have the feeling that Hegel is the precursor to the AIT. While Max Mueller gave it form.
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The entire time period of this research and awareness until Max Muller is more than 100 years.
When the sanskrit language was discovered in early 1700s it took them more than 100 years for them to come to terms with an alternate history from their own world view.
These Indian histories were pre historic for them and too complicated and Hegel makes a statement that Indians dont have any history. The combined work of all the orientalists ( around 50 of them from 1700) led them to get an idea of how to keep the Indian history isolated from the western history including Greek and Roman.
They had to maintain the integrity of Biblical history and timeline and also give a credible explanation for the origin of the European languages. This was very important for them for making sure that the history of Europe does not collapse under the new research.