The British Discovery Of Hinduism In the Eighteenth Century

Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 310 pages. One of the incidental consequences of the success of British arms in eighteenth-century India was the appearance of a number of publications which reflect the intense curiosity of contemporary Europeans about strange peoples, their manners and religions. Of the three principal religions of India, Hinduism… Read more about this item

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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1970. 22.0 x 14.0cms, 310pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback with fragile dustwrapper This book has chapters on John Zephhaniah Holwell; Alexander Dow: Nathaniel Brassey Halhed; Warren Hastings; Charles Wilkins; William Jones.