The British discovery of Hinduism in the eighteenth century
By: edited by P. J. Marshall.
Series: European understanding of India
Publisher: University Press; Cambridge University Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Hinduism -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Civilization -- Indic influences; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century
Notes: Reprints of either essays or chapters from books originally published between 1767 and 1790.
Table of contents: title: Chapters on The religious tenets of the Gentoos, by J. Z. Holwell.; title: A dissertation concerning Hindoos, by A. Dow.; title: The translator's preface to A code of Gentoo laws, by N. B. Halhed.; title: Letter to Nathaniel Smith, from the Bhăgvăt-Gēētā, by W. Hastings.; title: The translator's preface, from the Bhăgvăt-Gēētā, by C. Wilkins.; title: On the Gods of Greece, Italy and India, by W. Jones.; title: On the Hindus, by W. Jones.; title: On the chronology of the Hindus, by W. Jones.