02134 a2200373 4500 1317579178 20250317100406.0 250312042014GB 10 eng 9781317579175 Taylor & Francis GBP 39.99 BB 01 eng NHF thema GTM thema NHTQ thema 1FKA bisac HBJF bic GTB bic HBTQ bic 1FKA bisac HIS000000 bisac HIS003000 bisac POL000000 bisac SOC008000 bisac SOC053000 bisac 954.007202 bisac Rosane Rocher Making of Western Indology Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company 1 Oxford Routledge 20140617 256 p 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. Ludo Rocher A01 1830 1830