TY - GEN AU - McGetchin, Douglas T. TI - Indology, Indomania, and orientalism: ancient India's rebirth in modern Germany SN - 978-0-8386-4208-5 (alk. paper) AV - DS435.8 .M35 2009 U1 - 934.0072/043 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Madison [N.J.] PB - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press KW - Indologists KW - Germany KW - History KW - Orientalism KW - Public opinion KW - Civilization KW - Indic influences KW - Intellectual life KW - Relations KW - India KW - To 1200 KW - Foreign public opinion, German KW - Study and teaching N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-277) and index; Introduction: History is personal -- Prologue: Original attributes, 425 B.C.-A.D. 1765 -- pt. 1. L'age des ombres, 1765-1790s -- A comparison of Indology in England and France -- A foundation : ancient India and the German cultural sphere -- The study of Sanskrit in German universities, 1818-1914 -- Reaching the public -- Indology and Buddhism in fin-de-siƔecle Germany -- An Indo-Germanic connection? -- Appendix: Glossary of scholars ER -