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DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: William Jones and the Orientalists

By :- Mohandas Moses , Achala Moulik

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Pages: xvi+440

Format: HB

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-363-4

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 15cm x 22cm

Product Year: 2009

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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 authors 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. No other book has brought together all these diverse contributions to Indology and Orientalism with particular relevance to contemporary debates on the dialogue of civilizations.

Preface Acknowledgement Part 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 Part 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 Part 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 Part 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 36. 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, Historian 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 Part V European Indology 49. Germany and Indology 50. Russia and Indology 51. Italian Indology 52. Sandor Csoma de Koros ? The Pilgrim-Scholar of Hungary Part VI Oriental Scholars and Dialogues in Civilization 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

Mohandas Moses was one of the most distinguished civil servants of his time. He spent his boyhood in Burma, graduated from Madras Univer-sity with honours in Economics and Mathematics and then joined the IAS. His achievements as head of the Food Corporation of India, Karnataka Power Corporation, Union Agriculture and Union Welfare Secretary are still remembered. As Advisor to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir during 1994-1996, he made a very significant contribution to the restoration of normalcy. He was a man of deep and wide learning and has written a highly acclaimed book on the mind and also a memoir of Kashmir. He and his wife Achala have a doctor son. Achala Moulik was educated in England, USA, and Italy. She obtained a degree in Economics, History and International Law from London University and then joined the IAS. She was Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, and Education Secretary to the Government of India. A novelist, poet, playwright and cultural historian, Achala has written twenty-one books. She has been Guest Lecturer at the Getty Conservation Institute at USA, has been a member of several UNESCO-ICOMOS committees on heritage, the United States Education Foundation of India, Trustee of the National Book Trust and the Indian Museum.

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