Scottish Orientalists and India

A detailed assessment of how Western thinking about India developed in the nineteenth century, focusing on the exceptionally full lives of the scholar-administrator Muir brothers.

Avril A. Powell

A highly valuable contribution to the so called Orientalist/liberal - Anglicist/utilitarian debate of the late 1820s and the 1830s. (...) Without doubt the book deserves great scholarly attention and a prominent place on the shelves of academic libraries. H-SOZ-U-KULT This is a welcome study. readers will walk away with a nuanced understanding of the intellectual climate in the British Raj during its heyday. JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIESA first-class piece of research to which scholars will refer for years to come. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY (A) meticulous and magisterial study. INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH Highly recommended. CHOWKIDAR