"The Hindoos as well as the Chinese have ever laid claim to an Antiquity infinitely more remote than is authorized by the Belief of the rest of Mankind."
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Trautmann, Thomas R. (2008). Aryans and British India. page 73
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Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (25 May 1751 – 18 February 1830) (Bengali: হালেদ, romanized: "Haled") was an English Orientalist and philologist.
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