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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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1 edition- Other · English · 2011Oxford University Press · 396 pages · 9780199532001
AsianistsIndologistsBiographySanskritistsJones, william, sir, 1746-1794Great britain, biographySpécialistes en études asiatiquesBiographies