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‘Sanskritic vs Syncretic: Sir William Jones and Indian Pluralism and Plurality’
Michael Franklin 
Problematizing Language Studies: Cultural, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives: Essays in Honour of Rama Kant Agnihotri
Swansea University Author:
Michael Franklin
Abstract
‘Sanskritic vs Syncretic: Sir William Jones and Indian Pluralism and Plurality’, in Problematizing Language Studies: Cultural, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives: Essays in Honour of Rama Kant Agnihotri, ed. S. Imtiaz Hasnain and Shreesh Chaudhary (Delhi: Aakar, 2010), pp. 13-34.This path-breaking...
| Published in: | Problematizing Language Studies: Cultural, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives: Essays in Honour of Rama Kant Agnihotri |
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Delhi:
Aakar
2010
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12073 |
| Abstract: |
‘Sanskritic vs Syncretic: Sir William Jones and Indian Pluralism and Plurality’, in Problematizing Language Studies: Cultural, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives: Essays in Honour of Rama Kant Agnihotri, ed. S. Imtiaz Hasnain and Shreesh Chaudhary (Delhi: Aakar, 2010), pp. 13-34.This path-breaking chapter, heavily reliant upon archival discoveries, reveals – that despite Jones’s fascination with Sanskrit – his enthusiastic researches into mystical Indo-Persian poetry continued in Calcutta. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |