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Very few known Indian texts recording history before 15th century C.E. exist, hence, historical evidence for much of India's history comes through foreign historians. [23] [24] There is very little evidence of a native historiographical tradition in ancient India. [11] Al-Biruni stated the following about local Indian histriography: [10]
The classical world had an intimate knowledge of its Ancient Persian neighbours (and usually enemies) but very imprecise knowledge of most of the world farther east, including the "Seres" (Chinese). However, there was a substantial direct Roman trade with India , unlike that with China, during the Roman Empire.
Post-Orientalist Strategies; Imagining India. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990; Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture: A History of Caste and Clan in Middle Period Bengal. University of California Press, 1975. "Transcending Identities in Modern India's World," in Politics and the Ends of Identity, ed. Kathryn Dean. London, Ashgate, 1997, 64-102.
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Sir William Jones FRS FRAS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, orientalist and judge. Born in Westminster, London to Welsh mathematician William Jones, he moved to the Bengal Presidency where Jones served as a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William and also became a scholar of ancient Indian history.
In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle East, [1] was one of the many specialties of 19th-century academic art, and Western literature was ...
During the 1800s, India, and to a lesser extent China, began to displace the Levant as the primary subject of Orientalist research, while the term also appears in mid-century works to describe an appearance or perceived similarity to "Oriental" government or culture, such as in Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace, in which Napoleon, upon seeing ...
Beveridge retired to Pitfold, Shottermill, Surrey, England, where he devoted his time to studying and writing about India before dying in 1929. [ 11 ] Beveridge was an atheist and "an ardent discipline of the French positivist philosopher Auguste Comte " and his theories of altruism and the religion of humanity .