New Perspectives on the History of Indian Studiesin Continental Europe

摘要

There has been of late a spate of works from France which focus on the development of Indian studies on the continent of Europe. They are not primarily concerned with the accre-tion of European knowledge and understanding of India, as was Ernst Windisch's Geschichte der Sanskrit-Philologie and Indischen Altertumskunde (1917-20), or with the effect it had on European literature and culture, as was Raymond Schwab's Renaissance Orientale (1950), or with constructing it as an essentializing, hegemonic discourse, as was Ronald Inden's Imagining India (1999). They aim to study the social milieus and institutional settings in which the study of India evolved on the European continent.