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| Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Monier-Williams | | | First Name(s) | Monier | | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Sir | | | Birth Year | 1819 | | | Death Year | 1899 | | | Entry | Son of Colonel Monier-Williams, R.E., Surveyor-General, Bombay : born at Bombay, 1819 : educated at Chelsea, Brighton, King's College, London ; Balliol College, Oxford : went to Haileybury, 1840 : but gave up his idea of going to India : went to University College, Oxford : gained the Boden Sanskrit scholarship, 1843 : Professor of Sanskrit, Persian and Hindustani at Haileybury, 1844-58 : Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford, 1860 : founded, in 1883, the Indian Institute at Oxford, as a centre of Indian learning and interests : making three journeys to India to obtain native sympathy and help : was Fellow of Balliol, 1882-6 : Hon. Fellow of University College, 1892 : Curator of the Indian Institute : D.C.L., 1875 : LL.D., Calcutta : Ph.D. Gottingen : K.C.I.E., 1887 : wrote a Sanskrit grammar, English- Sanskrit and Sanskrit-English dictionaries ; Indian Epic Poetry, 1863 ; Indian Wisdom, 1875 ; devoted himself to the practical study of Sanskrit and later rather than the oldest Sanskrit literature ; some Hindustani works, Hinduism, 1877 ; Modern India and the Indians, 1878 ; Religious Life and Thought in India, 1883 ; Buddhism, 1889 : Brahmanism, 1891 : co-editor of Memorials of Old Haileybury : he supported Missionary enterprise in India, and aimed at increasing the knowledge of Indian religions in England : he died April 11, 1899. |
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