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A British School of Indian Studies in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

J. Ph. Vogel
J. Ph. Vogel
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Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Archæology at the University of Leiden (Holland).
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The subject to which I venture to invite your attention is not altogether new to the members of the Royal Asiatic Society. Three years ago, at a meeting of the Society on 14th March, 1916, with Sir Charles Lyall in the chair, when the Campbell Memorial Gold Medal was awarded to Professor Macdonell, of Oxford, the latter in his reply touched upon the desirability of creating, on behalf of British Sanskrit scholars, some opportunity of study and research in India. “The only remedy,” Professor Macdonell said, “seems to be the establishment of a school of research for Europeans at some centre of Sanskrit learning, preferably Benares, like the School of Classical Archæology at Athens or the French School at Hanoi in Indo-China. It will be a reproach to this country if we cannot establish something of this kind in India, with all our obligations to advance education and learning in connexion with the ancient civilization and literature of the vast Indian Empire.”

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , June 1922 , pp. 475 - 490
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1922

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page 475 note 1 Journal Royal Asiatic Society for the year 1916, p. 589.Google Scholar

page 476 note 1 The Societies in question are the Panjab Historical Society (founded in 1910), the Burma Research Society (1911), the Bihar and Orissa Research Society (1916), the Hyderabad Archæological Society (1916), and the United Provinces Historical Society (1917). At Bombay there exists since many years a branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Each of these societies publishes its own journal.

page 477 note 1 “Le successeur de Mariette, M. Maspero donna de 1881 à 1886, au Service des Antiquités, une direction vraiment scientifique dont le succes fut facilité par la réorganisation profonde de l'Egypte moderne qui suivit l'occupation anglaise. M. Maspero eut le courage de proclamer que les fouilles ne devaient venir qu'en second rang dans les préoccupations du Service; le but essentiel etait dédeblayer à fond les monuments; de les conserver et de les faire connaître; il était temps de substituer aux reconnaissances superficielles une méthode d'exploration complète et de publication intégrale. De ce jour, il exista vraiment un service de conservation des antiquités égyptiennes.” (Moret, A., Au temps des Pharaons, 2ième édition, Paris, 1912, p. 16.)Google Scholar

page 480 note 1 Davids, T. W. Rhys, “Oriental Studies in England and Abroad”— (Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. i), p. 9.Google Scholar

page 480 note 2 Meerwarth, A. M., “The Dramas of Bhāsa: a literary study”— Jl. Proc. A.S.B. (N.S.), vol. xiii (1917), pp. 261–79.Google ScholarLindenau, Max, Bhāsa-studien. Ein Beitrag zur Oeschichte des altindischen Dramas, Leipzig, 1918.Google Scholar Cf. also ProfessorBarnett's, remarks, JRAS. for 1919, p. 233.Google Scholar

page 480 note 3 A new series, the Epigraphia Indo-Moshmica, is devoted to the editing of the Arabic and Persian inscriptions found in India.

page 481 note 1 Some years ago steps were taken by the Director-General of Archæology to continue the series with the aid of some competent German scholars. I do not know what progress has since been made, but it is very much to be feared that the war has had a disastrous effect on this undertaking.

page 482 note 1 Recently the following has appeared: —Wetzel, Fr., Islamische Grabbaulen in Indien aus der Zeit der Soldatenkaiser 1320–1540, Leipzig, 1919.Google ScholarMil 1 Kartenskizze von Alt-Delhi und 350 Abbildungen auf 83 Tafeln und im Text (33ste Wissensch, Veröffentl. der deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft).

page 483 note 1 Cf. Konow's, Sten article Linguistic Survey of India, vol. iii, part 1, pp. 430–41.Google Scholar A vocabulary of the Kanauri was published by the Rev. Grahame Bailey in the Journal of the R.A.S. for 1910, pp. 659–705, and for 1911, pp. 315–64.Google Scholar“A Brief Grammar of the Kanauri Language” by the same scholar appeared in the Zschr. der dentschen morgenl. Gesellschaft, vol. lxiii (1909), pp. 661–87.Google Scholar

page 485 note 1 Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient, vol. i (1901), pp. 67 sq.Google Scholar See also the more detailed programme, as laid down by M. Emile Senart in his letter to the Director on the occasion of the founding of the School. Ibidem, pp. 10 sq.

page 486 note 1 By Government Order of 10th March, 1902, it was decided that correspondents of the School should be appointed. See B.E.F.E.O., vol. ii (1902), p. 234.Google Scholar

page 487 note 1 In 1917 the School brought out a Liste des publications et tables du Bulletin (1901–15).