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xxxvii higher education in India, and endeavoured to stimulate the learned classes to the study of their most ancient literature and of the religious and philosophical literature of the West. He did while in India much work in both departments and was the occasion of still more being done both by Hindus and Europeans. In 1853 he retired from the service and settled at Edinburgh. where he may be said to have continued under more favourable conditions his Indian labours. In 1862 he. endowed the Chair of Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh, and was the main agent in founding the Shaw Fellowship in Mental Philosophy. He was a D. C. L. of Oxford, LL. D. of Edinburgh, and Ph. D. ot Bonn...........
It is, however, extremely doubtful if even the
Hindus of 1951 holding most advancA Further Evi-ed views would concede that John dence for Govern
** Muir's earlier works like the Mutament-cum- Mission Coalition
pariksa advocating wholesale Chris
tianization of India were written really for the amelioration of the Hindus any more than that the missionaries' conversion movements, too, aimed at their amelioration. On the other hand, a disinterested survey of events would rather point to the composition of those works by such a prominent member of Indian Civil Service and their recorded free use by the missionaries in their countrywide conversion propaganda as a further eloquent evidence for the preMutiny government's coalition with the missionaries for the planned Christianization of the country.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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