A Pandit’s Journey: Peri Sarveshvara Sharma in Germany

In: Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 95 (2014), pp. 5-23. ISSN 0378-1143

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Abstract

The following pages are devoted to one aspect of Sanskrit Studies in Germany, which has remained mostly undocumented, that is, the presence of traditional Indian scholars of Sanskrit in many Indological Institutes in Germany during the second half of the 20th century. Such a collaboration with Indian “lecturers”, employed often for modern Indian languages, but working at the same time in Sanskrit Studies, was a feature so much taken for granted that now, with that system falling away through the radical downsizing of most departments of Indology in Germany, one is slowly realising the unique working environment it had provided to all who had the advantage of studying in it.