Indologist

🇩🇪Max Müller

philosophy

1823–1900

"India must be conquered again, and that second conquest should be a conquest by education."

"The theory and practice of the Tantric mandala operates on a mesocosmic level , that is, on the level of a mediating template between protocosm and metacosm as well as between macrocosm and microcosm."

🇩🇪Leopold von Schroeder

Education

1851–1920

"Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India."

🇮🇳Lokesh Chandra

Literature

Buddhism

b. 1927

"In conclusion, we can say that the Indonesian literati had access to all branches of Sanskrit learning and they put these disciplines to the best of use in the emergence of their own creative literature."

"Throughout this book I have argued· that. the problem with orientalism is not just one of bias or o"

Monier Monier-Williams

Literature

1819–1899

"For what purpose then, has this enormous territory been committed to England? .... that every man, woman and child from Cape Comorin ot the Himalaya mountains, may be elevated, enlightened, Christianised."

Al-Biruni

Mathematics

973–1050

"A Persian by birth, Biruni produced his writings in Arabic, though he knew, besides Persian, no less than four other languages."

Keshub Chunder Sen

Philosophy

1838–1884

"In carrying out the work of female education great impediments, some of them of an almost insuperable character, had to be overcome, and many defects had to be rectified."

🇩🇪Michael Witzel

Education

b. 1943

"“all these geographical notes belonging to diverse hymns are attributed to one and the same poet, SyAvASva, which is indicative of the poet’s travels."