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Garcin de Tassy

Biographie et étude critique de ses œuvres

The School of Living Oriental languages was founded in Paris in 1795. Garcin de Tassy held the chair of Hindustani there, which was created in 1828. Many important works are attributed to this great scholar, who was equally well versed in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. He was interested primarily in the Muslim religion and the Urdu language. The present volume first gives a historical introduction to Indian studies in Europe in the 18th-19th centuries A.D. It then traces the career of this s...


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  • Publisher : Institut Français de Pondichéry
  • Series : Collection Indologie | 22
  • Place of publication : Pondichéry
  • Year of publication : 1962
  • Published on OpenEdition Books : 14 avril 2020
  • EAN (Print version) : 978-81-89968-09-0
  • Electronic EAN : 979-10-365-4439-2
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.ifp.1252
  • Number of pages : 258 p.

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