 | Amitav Ghosh - 2002 - 392 Seiten
...Sanskrit-speaking people of India, and developing a civilization and a literature peculiarly their own, had necessarily a vast store of ideas and conceptions...vaster number of ideas utterly foreign to the Hindu. . . . [Mr Hastie's position] is the logical outcome of that monstrous claim to omniscience, which certain... | |
 | Amitav Ghosh - 2005 - 322 Seiten
...Sanskrit-speaking people of India, and developing a civilization and a literature peculiarly their own, had necessarily a vast store of ideas and conceptions...vaster number of ideas utterly foreign to the Hindu . . . [Mr. Hastie's position] is the logical outcome of that monstrous claim to omniscience, which... | |
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... language can possess no words or expressions to denote ideas or conceptions which have never entered into a Teutonic brain ... A people so thoroughly unconnected with England or Germany as the old Sanskrit-speaking people of India, and developing... 