Dialogue of Civilizations

Moses, A. Mohandas / Moulik, Achala:
Dialogue of civilizations : William Jones and the orientalists / by Mohandas Moses & Achala Moulik. - New Delhi : Aryan Books International, 2009. - xvi, 440 S. : Ill.
ISBN 978-81-7305-363-4 / 81-7305-363-4
Rs. 950,00
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Beschreibung
Dialogue of Civilizations : William Jones and the Orientalists is a sweeping account of the movement that began in 1784 by Warren Hastings - the then Governor General of India, Sir William Jones, Halhed, Wilkins, Colebrooke, Prinsep, Wilson and others to rediscover the civilization of India. It is no small irony that this movement began in the heyday of a nascent imperialism and under the patronage of the East India Company. The authors describe how this happened, set against the turbulence of the times in India. The work of the early British scholars aroused the curiosity of scholars in Germany where Indology and Sanskrit studies rose to brilliant heights. The vast and comprehensive work of German scholars made Berlin the Benaras of India. Since Germany had no empire in India, German Indology was different in flavour and spirit from British Indology. Simultaneously Russian Indology developed on its own, with a growing sympathy for a nation of great heritage who was under alien rule. Their contribution to Indology in the nineteenth and twentieth century was formidable. Italy and Hungary too had their share of outstanding Indologists and Tibetologists. The author give a comprehensive description of the contribution of these great scholars. The theory of civilization, its clashes, conflicts, and interactions is discussed at some length with erudition and originality. [Vom Buchumschlag]

Inhalt
Preface
Acknowledgement
I. DIALOGUE BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS
1. The crossroads of civilizations
2. William Jones and the dialogue of civilizations
3. Contacts between Asia and Europe
4. Interaction of cultures within Asia
5. Early cultural and commercial exchanges between east and west
6. Clash and confrontation
7. India's seashore of humanity
8. Orientalism and the western world
II. BRITISH RULE IN INDIA IN THE AGE OF WILLIAM JONES
9. The prelude to Plassey
10. Foundation stones of the British empire
11. Preliminary skirmishes
12. Clive the conqueror
13. Shaking the Pagoda Tree
14. The East India Company
15. The enigmatic Warren Hastings (1732-1818)
16. Administrator and reformer
17. Burke and the Indian Constitution
18. Evaluation of Hastings
19. Later British Colonial Administrators
III. BRITISH ATTITUDES TO INDIA
20. East meets west
21. Early encounters
22. Chaos and camaraderie
23. Alienation
24. Charles grant and the struggle to save Indian souls
25. The evolution of Anglo-Indian Mythology
26. Upholding Indian traditions
27. Educating Indians
28. Attitudes to the Indian empire: guilt and atonement
29. Thomas Babbington Macaulay: Dialogue or clash of civilizations?
30. The nationalist response
31. Conflicts and cross-pollination of cultures
IV. SIR WILLIAM JONES (1746-94)
32. Tribute to Sir William Jones
33. The long journey from Portsmouth
34. The England of William Jones
35. The making of William Jones
35. The literary and political scene in London
37. A brush with rebels
38. The advent of William Jones
39. A river of ruined capitals
40. Calcutta in the time of William Jones
41. Social life in Calcutta
42. The British Justinian
43. Poet, historican and philologist
44. William Jones and the Indian game of chess
45. Jones discovers Kalidasa
46. Establishment of Asiatic Society
47. Farewell to Arcadia
48. The legacy of Sir William Jones
V. EUROPEAN INDOLOGY
49. Germany and Indology
50. Russia and Indology
51. Italian Indology
52. Sandor Csoma de Koros: The pilgrim-scholar of Hungary
VI. ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND DIALOGUES IN CIVILISATION
53. Warren Hastings -- imperialist and orientalist
54. Procuring Pundits
55. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and the Bengali Grammar
56. Codifying Hindu Laws
57. Charles Wilkins and the Bhagavad Gita
58. Henry Thomas Colebrooke - the path breaker
59. Horace Hayman Wilson
60. James Fergusson
61. William Carey and the Serampore Mission
62. Sir Monier Williams and development of Sanskrit studies.
63. Sir Edwin Arnold
64. Vincent Smith
65. Aurel Stein: explorer-scholar-translator
Bibliography.
Index.

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