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- The European scholars who reconstructed early Indian history in the 19th century regarded it as essentially static and Indian society as concerned only with things spiritual.
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May 3, 2017 · European notions of India’s history, geography, politics, and religion were strongly shaped by the manuscripts, paintings, and artifacts―both precious and prosaic―that found their way into Western hands.
20 hours ago · The European scholars who reconstructed early Indian history in the 19th century regarded it as essentially static and Indian society as concerned only with things spiritual. Indologists, such as the German Max Müller , relied heavily on the Sanskritic tradition and saw Indian society as an idyllic village culture emphasizing qualities of ...
That the beginnings of Indian history would have to be rediscovered through European methods of historical scholarship, with an emphasis on chronology and sequential narrative, became the challenge.
Sep 20, 2001 · As a result of the discovery of similarities between Sanskrit and the classical languages of Europe, scholars hypothesized the existence of an early “proto-Indo-European” people who spoke the language from which the other Indo-European speakers evolved.
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Indian life. European scholars do not, however, accept that view. It is, however, admitted that India is one of the most ancient countries of the world. European scholars are apt to start the history of culture and democ-racy from the Greek period of civiliza-tion. The Greeks and after them the Romans were the founders of civiliza-tion in Europe.
In Orientalism, Edward Said attempts to show that all European discourse about the Orient is the same, and all European scholars of the Orient complicit in the aims of European imperialism.
Oct 20, 2021 · With the rise in the imperial power of Europe over India, the cradle of civilisation began to shift outside India and ultimately landed in Europe. Simultaneously, the idea of invasion of India by the ‘Aryan race’, or the Aryan invasion theory (AIT), was promoted.
