"It is remarkable however how strong the power of suggestion is even in science. Max Muller's hypothetical and purely arbitrary determination of the Vedic epochs in the course of years, received more and more the dignity and the character of a scientifically proven fact, without any new arguments or actual proofs having been added."
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M. Winternitz, 1927:293, quoted in Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 161.
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Moriz Winternitz
Moriz Winternitz (Horn, December 23, 1863 â Prague, January 9, 1937) was a scholar from Austria who began his Indology contributions working with Max MĂŒller at the Oxford University.
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