Making of Western Indology - Rocher, Rosane (University of Pennsylvania, USA) a Rocher, Ludo (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an East India Company civil servant who became the father of modern Indology. He embodies the significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on eighteenth century colonial expansion. This biography traces, explains, and evaluates Colebrooke's importance.