Indologist

/ ɪnˈdɒlədʒɪst /

noun

1. a student of Indian literature, history, philosophy, etc

Derived Forms

• Inˈdology, noun

Example Sentences

In 1883 the renowned German Indologist and philologist, Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch copied and translated the inscription into English, dating the text to the year C.E.

From Scientific American

References to Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Octavio Paz, Mark Twain, and contemporary thinkers, such as the Indologist Sheldon Pollock, flit in and out of the narrative, pell-mell, but they offer an international precedent for India’s uneasy encounter with modernity.

From The New Yorker

The manuscript was found by a farmer in a village called Bakhshali, in what is now Pakistan, in 1881 before being acquired by the indologist Rudolf Hoernle, who presented it to the Bodleian Libraries in 1902.

From BBC

A superb three-volume photographic corpus3 of Indus inscriptions, edited by the indefatigable Asko Parpola, an Indologist at the University of Helsinki, was published between 1987 and 2010 with the support of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; a fourth and final volume is still to come.

From Nature

In Paris, Mr. Bose worked with Maurice de Broglie and Marie Curie, armed with letters of introduction from a French Indologist named Paul Langevin.

From New York Times