Eminent Orientalists.
INDIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN AND AMERICAN.
This is the first attempt to present under one cover a succinct account of the lives and achievements of well-known Orientalists, who have done pioneer work in the field of Indology. The activities of this group of savants—English, Scotch, French, German, American and Indian, have been many·sided. They have explored the regions of archaeology, epigrapby and palseography, not to speak of their valuable researches in regard to the religion of the Vedic Aryans, and have thus opened out vistas of knowledge in directions never before thought of.
Among the Orientalists Studied are : Sir William Jones, Sir Charles Wilkins. Colebroake. Horace Wilson, George Tournour, Fergusson, Rajendralal Mitra, Telang, Bhau Daji and lndraji, Dr. Buhler, Monier Williams, Max Muller. Sir John Fleet, Edwin Arnold, Nivedita, Griffith, Whitney, Vincent Smith. Tilak, Anundoram Borooah. Bhandarkar, Macdonnel, Keith, Paul Deussen and Sylvain Levi.
Among the contributors to the volume are: Prof. P. Seshadri, Prof Radhakrishnan, Dr. S. Krishnaswami Ayengar. Prof. P. P. S Sastri. Mr. Shumbu Chunder Dey, Prof. Suryanarayana, Mr. Vasant Naik, Mr. K. S. Ramaswami Sastri, Prof. M. S. Ramaswami Ayengar, Prof. Surya Kumar Bhuyan, Prof. Srinivasachari, and Mr. D. W. Wickramarachi.
New India.—The field of Indology has indeed commanded the services of very eminent men, and Messrs. G. A. Natesan & Co., have done a real service in bringing out in book form the lives of 25 of them. The volume supplies a much felt want and ought to prove very useful in spreading knowledge of those who have secured a just appreciation of India to the West.
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