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The making of western Indology : Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company

Title
The making of western Indology : Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company / Rosane Rocher and Ludo Rocher.
Author
Rocher, Rosane
Publication
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Rocher, Ludo
Description
xv, 238 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  • "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. This book explains and evaluates Colebrooke's position 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 early career at the East India Company, and his role in the supreme council and as theorist of the Bengal government. The book highlights how his unprecedented familiarity with a broad range of literature established him as a leading scholar of Sanskrit and president of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta. Colebrooke went on to found the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and has set the standards for the study of 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"--
  • "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. This book explains and evaluates Colebrooke's position 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 early career at the East India Company, and his role in the supreme council and as theorist of the Bengal government. The book highlights how his unprecedented familiarity with a broad range of literature established him as a leading scholar of Sanskrit and president of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta. Colebrooke went on to found the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and has set the standards for the study of 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"--
Series Statement
Royal Asiatic Society books
Uniform Title
Royal Asiatic Society books
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: A family of financiers -- East India Company chairman -- Bankruptcy and exile -- Antechamber to a career -- The mofussil -- First publications -- Digest of Hindu law -- Golden years -- Resident at the court of Berar -- The superior court -- Fort William College -- The Asiatic Society -- Current concerns -- Negotiating the shoals of patronage -- Voice of the supreme council -- President of the Asiatic Society -- Schools of Hindu law -- Kin and foe -- Retired from the supreme council -- Settling into scholarly retirement -- Providing for further Indological research -- Scientific societies -- Landowning at the Cape -- Single father -- The Royal Asiatic Society -- A rare polemic -- Woes and withdrawal -- Rise of continental Indology -- Closure -- Administrator-scholar -- Paragon of exactitude.
ISBN
  • 9780415336017
  • 0415336015
  • 9781138784178
  • 1138784176
  • 9780203420614 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0203420616 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2011023490
OCLC
  • ocn730114617
  • 730114617
  • SCSB-14449412
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library