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Orientalist Jones

by Franklin, Michael J.

AsianistsIndologistsBiographySanskritistsJones, william, sir, 1746-1794Great britain, biographySpécialistes en études asiatiquesBiographies

A critical biography of Sir William Jones (1746-94), the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time, whose Sanskrit researches did more than any other writer to destroy Eurocentric prejudice reshaping Western perceptions of India and the Orient.

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