The Making of Western Indology: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company (Royal Asiatic Society Books)

by Ludo Rocher (Author), RosaneRocher (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $177.47

  Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an East India Company civil servant who became the father of modern Indology. He embodies the significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on eighteenth century colonial expansion. This biography traces, explains, and evaluates Colebrooke's importance.