Awesome article. Thanks Kaushalji. Superb run down on the story of Orientalists.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Centuries later in 1870, during the First Vatican Council, Hinduism was condemned in the âfive anathemas against pantheismâ according to the Jesuit priest John Hardon in the Church-authorized book, The Catholic Catechism. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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I think there was a brief period of which some other european Indologists too, who were independent from either British or Church. Especially french officials like Voltaire posted in India did generate good literature on India. They did think of India as the source of civilization. However, with the defeat of French by British ended that phase. I had somewhere read that British East India Company even paid French to buy their manuscripts on India-related subjects.
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Between:
a:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Centuries later in 1870, during the First Vatican Council, Hinduism was condemned in the âfive anathemas against pantheismâ according to the Jesuit priest John Hardon in the Church-authorized book, The Catholic Catechism. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
and b:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->However, interests in Indology only took shape and concrete direction after the British came to India, with the advent of the discovery of Sanskrit by Sir William Jones in the 1770âs.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think there was a brief period of which some other european Indologists too, who were independent from either British or Church. Especially french officials like Voltaire posted in India did generate good literature on India. They did think of India as the source of civilization. However, with the defeat of French by British ended that phase. I had somewhere read that British East India Company even paid French to buy their manuscripts on India-related subjects.
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