"One might think this position would have endeared Max Muller to missionaries, but in fact it did not. Rather, they found him entirely too sympathetic to the "heathen" and suspected him of being insufficiently committed to the faith. Accordingly, in 1860 he was passed over for Oxford's Boden chair in Sanskrit, which carried responsibility for preparing the Sanskrit-English dictionary, both of which were intended, under the terms of Lt-Col Boden's will, to advance the conversion of Indians to Christianity, not to foster English understanding or respect for India."
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Bruce Lincoln, on Müller's views in his early career that English colonialists should "wean" Indian brethren from Aryan myths to convert them to the Gospel, in Theorizing Myth : Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship (1999), p. 68
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