India and Europe: An Essay in Philosophical Understanding  

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"Modern Indological research and the systematic exploration of India's religious and philosophical tradition began in Hegel's own time, with the foundation of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1784), and the works of W. Jones, Ch. Wilkins and H. Th. Colebrooke."--India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding (1981) by Wilhelm Halbfass

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Indien und Europa, Perspektiven ihrer geistigen Begegnung (1981), English translation, India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding (1988) is a comprehensive survey of the intellectual encounters between India and Europe from antiquity to the present day. He explores these encounters in terms of what he calls xenology, the various ways in which self and otherness are defined "within a historically complex collision of cultures".

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