When Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was rattling his sabre under the tremulous nose of France, a German professor stuck his finger into the dead corpus of the Sanskrit language and pulled out ...

THE discovery of the Aryan family of languages, as elucidated in the paper printed in The Atlantic for February, was the first and most conspicuous consequence of the zeal for Sanskrit studies which ...

Thinking about Iran and the Bomb the other day (what newspaper reader doesn’t?), it struck me as a curious coincidence that, for the second time in some of our lifetimes, Jews are being threatened ...

Indian historiography is largely the legacy of British colonial rule. The imprint of Western social sciences was so strong on the Indian psyche that our subcontinent found it impossible to break away ...

PERHAPS no conclusion of comparative philology has received such unanimous indorsement and been regarded as so incontestable as that which designates the tablelands of Central Asia as the cradle of ...