B. N. Mukherjee: Studies in Kushāna genealogy and chronology. Vol.I. The Kushāna Genealogy. (Calcutta Sanskrit College Research Series, No. LIX. Studies, No. 38.) xvii213 pp., 10 Plates, 2maps. Calcutta: Sanskrit College, 1967. Rs.35.

1970 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-241
Author(s):  
R. E. Emmertck
Keyword(s):  
Sanskrit College

The ‘Scotch Metaphysics’ in 19th Century Benares

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-157
Author(s):  
Richard Fox Young
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
Sanskrit College

That India once had a sustained ‘dialogue’ with Scottish Philosophy is not gener- ally known, or that the exchange occurred in the medium of Sanskrit, not English. The essay explores an important cross-cultural encounter in the colonial context of mid 19th-century Benares where two Scots, John Muir and James Ballantyne, served as principals of a Sanskrit college established by the East India Company. Educated toward the end of the Scottish Enlightenment, they endeavoured to translate such distinctive concepts of ‘Scotch Metaphysics’ as Externalism into Indian philosophical categories. The ensuing ‘dialogue’ with Brahmin interlocutors shows that the prob- lems they faced were less terminological than conceptual, having to do with contras- tive ways of understanding ‘mind’ and ‘man’. Between the two Scots, there were also signifi cant differences, although both had gone to India as Scottish Calvinists. While Muir remained largely impervious to Indian infl uence, Ballantyne was profoundly changed, becoming, in effect, a ‘Vedantic Calvinist’.

scholarly journals Art. V.—Two modern Sanskrit ślokas

1883 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-175
Author(s):  
E. B. Cowell
Keyword(s):  
Public Instruction ◽  
Sanskrit College

Professor Wilson left Calcutta in 1832, having been appointed to the Boden Professorship of Sanskrit at Oxford. He had been one of the leaders of the Orientalist party in the General Committee of Public Instruction, as opposed to the pure “Anglicists”; and since each party held extreme views as to the respective value of Eastern and Western learning, his departure was naturally regarded as an evil omen to the cause of Sanskrit by the students and teachers of the Calcutta Sanskrit College. My old Pandit, Rámanáráyana Vidyáratna, was a pupil in the College at that time; and he has often described to me the scene when the pandits met to bid Wilson farewell, and one of them addressed him in a Sanskrit śloka, which is still well remembered by every native scholar in Calcutta. The college tradition is that Wilson's stern face was softened to tears, as he heard its pathetic appeal.

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