Year: | 1778 | |
Short description: | Halhed's "Grammar of the Bengal Language" | |
Medium description: | Nathaniel Halhed's "Grammar of the Bengal Language" in which Halhed notes the similarities between the vocabulary of Sanskrit and Persian, Arabic and Latin and Greek. Howatt and Widdowson (2004) state it as one of the events that marked the height of orientalism in western ideas of India. | |
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