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The Making of Western Indology

Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company

By: Rosane Rocher,Ludo Rocher

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The Making of Western Indology

Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company

By: Rosane Rocher,Ludo Rocher

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. The Making of Western Indology explains and evaluates Colebrooke’s role 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 career with the East India Company, from a young writer to member of the supreme council and theorist of the Bengal government. Highlighting how his unprecedented familiarity with a broad range of literature established him as the leading scholar of Sanskrit and president of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, it shows how Colebrooke went on to found the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and set standards for 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.

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131757916X

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Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century

By: Holden Furber,Rosane Rocher

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Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century

By: Holden Furber,Rosane Rocher

This collection of essays, two of which appear in print for the first time, documents the late Holden Furber’s discovery that private ventures, most manifestly deployed in the ’country trade’ between Asian ports, played a major role in the European expansion in India before the age of empire. Furber vividly describes how individual entrepreneurs used their positions with East India Companies to build personal fortunes, and how these private endeavours, for which the English East India Company gave more latitude, ultimately worked to the benefit of British power in India. One of the continuing strengths of his work remains its use of archival sources, not only British, but also other archival records, in particular those of The Netherlands and Scandinavia. The essays also highlight important connections, between chartered and ’clandestine’ trade, and piracy; of multinational private investments in the increasingly dominant East India Company; and between the trade of the Indian Ocean and Pacific worlds.

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Taylor & Francis

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104024470X

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9781040244708

The Making of Western Indology

Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company

By: Rosane Rocher,Ludo Rocher

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A Shunned Indologist, Ludwig Poley (1805-1885)

By: Rosane Rocher

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A Shunned Indologist, Ludwig Poley (1805-1885)

By: Rosane Rocher

Rosane Rocher describes the not always happy and exemplary, but fascinating life of Ludwig Poley (1805-1885), which contrasts with biographies usually reserved for illustrious scholars. The book explores the challenges that a nineteenth-century German Indologist could face, reveals his strategies for overcoming them, and his character flaws that made him both rejected by his peers and accepted in literary salons. As an illegitimate child, Poley depended on scholarships. He published in Berlin an edition and Latin translation of a Sanskrit text, which he did not submit at the University. Yet, he later claimed it to have been his doctoral dissertation. As Louis Poley, he made a name for himself in Paris as a brilliant young protagonist of the Oriental Renaissance, and he published editions and French translations of some Upanishads. He was a respected employee at the Prussian Embassy in London until he was abruptly dismissed for his involvement in a scandal. Years of wandering through Europe without academic employment followed. A transnational and multilingual scholar, he contributed to the introduction of English and German into the French secondary school curriculum. Only in the last two decades of his life did he teach at a university. He was both a private lecturer in Indian culture and antiquities and a teacher of French language and literature at the University of Vienna and at other academic institutions. Poley's last publication on the Vedantasara, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, was a final expression of his lifelong commitment to the exploration of Vedanta.

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The Making of Western Indology

The Making of Western Indology

Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century

Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century

The Making of Western Indology

The Making of Western Indology

A Shunned Indologist, Ludwig Poley (1805-1885)

A Shunned Indologist, Ludwig Poley (1805-1885)

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