[Y-Indology] Sanskrit in London

[Guest guest]

Dear Philip,

Why is it that England has been, unlike ,say,Germany

and other European countries like France rather

lukewarm in its response to Sanskrit though the

English people had first hand knowledge about

India?The Indo European link has been there. Even

America has shown greater enthusism in Indology and

the Sanskrit language.

This has been a question puzzling me all these years.

Now that you are in London, could you find an answer?

Rajendran

 

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Professor of Sanskrit

University of Calicut

Calicut University P.O

Kerala 673 635 Phone: 0494-2401144

Residential address:28/1097,Rajadhani Kumaran Nair Road,

Chevayur, Calicut Kerala 673 017 Phone: 0495-2354 624

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Rajendran C wrote:

 

> Dear Philip,

> Why is it that England has been, unlike ,say,Germany

> and other European countries like France rather

> lukewarm in its response to Sanskrit though the

> English people had first hand knowledge about

> India?The Indo European link has been there. Even

> America has shown greater enthusism in Indology and

> the Sanskrit language.

> This has been a question puzzling me all these years.

> Now that you are in London, could you find an answer?

 

I shall definitely make a point of trying to find answers to this

question, but I have only been here a bit more than a week at this point,

so I would not feel right about making any premature speculations. I hope

someone else with more experience of England and indology may answer in

the meantime. Not to be too gallingly obvious, but I would think that the

psychological difference for the English, if such an entity may

legitimately be spoken of, has to do with its imperial relationship to

India, which is not shared by other western nations with indological

traditions, or not to anything like the same extent.

 

Phillip

[Guest guest]

Philip,

 

You may find that the Cambridge Sanskritist John Smith has answered

your needs virtually - if you consult ftp://bombay.oriental.cam.ac.uk

you will find a digital Ramayana waiting for you. For what it's worth,

there are active research groups working on Sanskrit or Middle

Indo-Aryan materials all around you in London - for starters, there's

the Wellcome Trust Library, SOAS, King's College and Goldsmith's

College, all of which have faculty working in older Indic sources, plus

of course the India Office Library and the Royal Asiatic Society, both

of which have good collections of manuscripts. If you go a little

further afield, to Cambridge, Oxford, Bristol, Cardiff, or Edinburgh

(for starters) you will find yet more of us.

 

-Will.

 

 

On 21 Jul 2004, at 10:21, Phillip Ernest wrote:

 

> Hi, group.

>

> I've just moved to London, England, from Toronto, and had to leave

> most of my

> books behind, at least for the time being, so I have no Sanskrit to

> read,

> escept for a little paperback Gita I bought in Toronto's Little INdia

> before I

> left.  And I do not yet have access to the SOAS library.  I wonder if

> there is

> anyone on the London area who can lend me, say, a not too valuable

> Ramayana or

> Mahabharata to tide me over, or perhaps direct me to shops in London

> similar to

> the one in Toronto where I could find very cheap paperback editions

> of the Gita

> and Itihasa.  At the SOAS bookstore I was referred to Arthur

> Probsthain's shop

> in Great Russell Street, but looking through the window I don't have

> the

> impression that he will have anything that is not quite valuable and

> costly,

> though I shall go in today.

>

> Many thanks.

>

> Phillip

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