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Rosane Rocher describes the not always happy and exemplary, but fascinating life of Ludwig Poley (1805-1885), which contrasts with biographies usually reserved for illustrious scholars. The book explores the challenges that a nineteenth-century German Indologist could face, reveals his strategies for overcoming them, and his character flaws that made him both rejected by his peers and accepted in literary salons. As an illegitimate child, Poley depended on scholarships. He published in Berlin an edition and Latin translation of a Sanskrit text, which he did not submit at the University. Yet,...

Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an East India Company civil servant who became the father of modern Indology. Written by renowned academics in the field of Indology, this title traces, explains and evaluates Colebrooke's importance.

This collection of essays, two of which appear in print for the first time, documents the late Holden Furbera s discovery that private ventures, most manifestly deployed in the a country tradea between Asian ports, played a major role in the European expansion in India before the age of empire. Furber vividly describes how individual entrepreneurs used their positions with East India Companies to build personal fortunes, and how these private endeavours, for which the English East India Company gave more latitude, ultimately worked to the benefit of British power in India. One of the...