The British discovery of Hinduism in the eighteenth century / edited by P. J. Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, P. J. (Peter James), compiler.

Series:

European understanding of India.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hinduism.

Physical Description:

viii, 310 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1970.

Contents:

Chapters on The religious tenets of the Gentoos, by J. Z. Holwell.

A dissertation concerning Hindoos, by A. Dow.

The translator's preface to A code of Gentoo laws, by N. B. Halhed.

Letter to Nathaniel Smith, from the Bhăgvăt-Gēētā, by W. Hastings.

The translator's preface, from the Bhăgvăt-Gēētā, by C. Wilkins.

On the Gods of Greece, Italy and India, by W. Jones.

On the Hindus, by W. Jones.

On the chronology of the Hindus, by W. Jones.

Notes:

Reprints of either essays or chapters from books originally published between 1767 and 1790.

ISBN:

0521077370