"If the electoral system of Oxford professors in the middle of the nineteenth century had been different, and Max Müller had instead been appointed to the Boden chair of Sanskrit which had fallen vacant eight years before, western Sanskrit scholarship might have taken an entirely different course. Colonel Boden’s bequest, however, had stipulated that the main aim in teaching Sanskrit in the west should be to make progress in converting the heathen of India. .... A handbill (Bodleian MS. Eng. c. 2807) distributed towards the end of the vigorous campaign that took place must however have told him that the writing was on the wall: The Professorship is not for Oxford alone. It is not for ‘The Continent and America’. It is for India. It is for Christianity."
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Thomson, K. (2009). A still undeciphered text: How the scientific approach to the Rigveda would open up Indo-European studies. Journal of Indo-European Studies, 37(1-2), 1-72.
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