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Indian postcolonialism and Western populism sometimes converge. The post Lamenting Lutyens appeared first on The American Conservative .
Of all the British imperials to coerce India into modernity, four men—a Welshman, two Englishmen, and a Scot—stand out as the most influential. Contrary to the fantasies of most fevered online onanists, none of them were either military conquerors or plunderers. One was a judge, two were historians, and the last was an architect. Sir William Jones, a Welsh scholar and judge, founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta and modern qualitative and historical research in India. An early historian of Indo-European languages, his efforts led to the foundation of the Journal of the Asiatic Society (his name is still prominently displayed on the cover of the journal ), along with its editor, James Prinsep. Jones and Prinsep were foundational in…Open
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