In 1882, Max Muller, scholar, translator and life-long student of Indian literature and religion, delivered a series of lectures at Cambridge in which he spoke at length on his idea of India and what it represented for the world. Contains a useful critical introduction. This is a true classic on India.
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WHEN I received from the Board of Historical Studies at Cambridge the invitation to deliver a course of lectures, specially intended for the candidates for the Indian Civil Service, I hesitated for some time, feeling extremely doubtful whether in a few public discourses I could say anything that would be of real use to them in passing their examinations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Colonel Sleeman, Indian Civil Service, Laws of Manu, Hibbert Lectures, Old Testament, Sir William Jones, Professor Wilson, Sacred Books of the East, Highest Self, Marco Polo, Vedic Sanskrit, Altindisches Leben, Indian Antiquary, Old Slavonic, Professor Muller, Science of Language, Asia Minor, General Cunningham, Herbert Spencer, History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, Keshub Chunder Sen, Northern Aryans, Samuel Johnson, Sir Thomas Munro, Teutonic Mythology New!
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WHEN I received from the Board of Historical Studies at Cambridge the invitation to deliver a course of lectures, specially intended for the candidates for the Indian Civil Service, I hesitated for some time, feeling extremely doubtful whether in a few public discourses I could say anything that would be of real use to them in passing their examinations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Colonel Sleeman, Indian Civil Service, Laws of Manu, Hibbert Lectures, Old Testament, Sir William Jones, Professor Wilson, Sacred Books of the East, Highest Self, Marco Polo, Vedic Sanskrit, Altindisches Leben, Indian Antiquary, Old Slavonic, Professor Muller, Science of Language, Asia Minor, General Cunningham, Herbert Spencer, History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, Keshub Chunder Sen, Northern Aryans, Samuel Johnson, Sir Thomas Munro, Teutonic Mythology New!
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- Teutonic Mythology, 4 VolumeSet (Phoenix Edition) by Jacob Grimm on page 210, page 211, and page 212
- History of British India (Classics of British Historical Literature) by James Mill on page 57, and page 59
- Myths and Songs from the South Pacific by William Wyatt Gill on page 170
- Buddhist Suttas by T. W. Rhys Davids on page 97
- The History of England (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Babington Macaulay on page 141
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