History in language, language in history. From: CLIO | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Krishnaswamy, Revathi | COPYRIGHT 2004 Indiana University, Purdue University of Fort Wayne. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"Often where history is utterly dumb concerning the past, language speaks." (1)

Europe's discovery of Sanskrit, "the America of languages," as Raymond Schwab calls it, was perhaps as momentous in its import as that earlier discovery to which Schwab's evocative phrase links it. (2) It not only signals the onset of an "Oriental Renaissance" in Europe, but also marks Europe's colonization of the Old World and its languages/cultures. More specifically, the discovery of Sans...

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