Author: John MuirPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Indian Civil Service and the Scottish Universities; Or, The New System of Appointment Considered
Author: John MuirPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Scottish Orientalists and India
Author: Avril Ann PowellPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843835797
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A detailed assessment of how Western thinking about India developed in the nineteenth century, focusing on the exceptionally full lives of the scholar-administrator Muir brothers. Structured around the lives and careers of two Scottish scholar-administrator brothers, Sir William and Dr John Muir, who served in the East India Company and the Raj in North-West India from 1827-1876, this book examines cultural, especially religious and educational attitudes and interactions during the period. The core of the study centres on a detailed examination of the brothers' seminal works on Vedic and Islamic history and society which, researched from Sanskrit and Arabic sources, became standard reference works on India's religions during the Raj. The publication of these works coincided with the outbreak of the Indian Uprising of 1857, on the nature of which William's correspondence with his brother and others allows some reconsideration, especially in respect of Muslim participation. Powell also examines the response of Indian Muslim scholars, particularly of Sir Saiyid Ahmad Khan, to William's critiques of Islam and the brothers' patronage of Oriental scholarship, comparative religion and education during their long retirement back in their native Scotland. The study contributes to current debates about the Scottish contribution to Empire with particular reference to India and to cultural issues. AVRIL A. POWELL is Reader Emerita in the History Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
The Classics and Colonial India
Author: Phiroze VasuniaPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199203237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the minds of the British colonizers, and highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity.
The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Indian Year-book for 1862
Author: Author Catalog
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office United-States Army
Author: The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryReport of the Royal Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Universities of Scotland, with Evidence and Appendix ...
Author: Scotland. Universities commissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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