Sanskrit

Orientalist scholars of the 18th century like Sir William Jones marked a wave of enthusiasm for Indian culture and for Sanskrit. According to Thomas Trautmann, after this period of "Indomania", a certain hostility to Sanskrit and to Indian culture in general began to assert itself in early 19th century Britain, manifested by a neglect of Sanskrit in British academia. This was the beginning of a general push in favor of the idea that India should be culturally, religiously and linguistically assimilated to Britain as far as possible. Trautmann considers two separate and logically opposite sources for the growing hostility: one was "British Indophobia", which he calls essentially a developmentalist, progressivist, liberal, and non-racial-essentialist critique of Hindu civilisation as an aid for the improvement of India along European lines; the other was scientific racism, a theory of the English "common-sense view" that Indians constituted a "separate, inferior and unimprovable race".

Question: Why was there so much negativity towards Sanskrit?
Answer: "British Indophobia", which he calls essentially a developmentalist, progressivist, liberal, and non-racial-essentialist critique of Hindu civilisation as an aid for the improvement of India along European lines; the other was scientific racism

Question: What was the view of superioroty of the Indian race seen as in the 18th century?
Answer: English "common-sense view

Question: Trautmann considered scientific racism and what else reasons for white Britain was hostile towards Sanskrit?
Answer: British Indophobia

Question: What did Trautmann theorize?
Answer: two separate and logically opposite sources for the growing hostility

Question: What cause indian language to be abandoned in schools
Answer: hostility to Sanskrit and to Indian culture

Question: What is the opposite of Indomania?
Answer: Indophobia

Question: Why was Britain hostile towards Sanskrit?
Answer: "British Indophobia", which he calls essentially a developmentalist, progressivist, liberal, and non-racial-essentialist critique of Hindu civilisation as an aid for the improvement of India along European lines; the other was scientific racism

Question: What education changes happened as a result of british assimilation?
Answer: neglect of Sanskrit in British academia

Question: What is Trautmann's first name?
Answer: Thomas

Question: What country did Indomania celebrate?
Answer: India

Question: What did followers of British Indophobia and the English common sense view share in common?
Answer: sources for the growing hostility

Question: Why was sanskrit no longer taught in schools?
Answer: the idea that India should be culturally, religiously and linguistically assimilated

Question: How do the British spell civilization?
Answer: civilisation

Question: What were Trautmann two theories of why Britain was hostile to Sanskrit?
Answer: one was "British Indophobia", which he calls essentially a developmentalist, progressivist, liberal, and non-racial-essentialist critique of Hindu civilisation as an aid for the improvement of India along European lines; the other was scientific racism

Question: Where did the backlash to Indomania start?
Answer: Britain