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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

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‘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...

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Published in: Problematizing Language Studies: Cultural, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives: Essays in Honour of Rama Kant Agnihotri
Published: Delhi: Aakar 2010
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12073
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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.
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences