South Asia at the Library of Congress: The Albrecht Weber Collection (1904)
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
(The following is a post by Jonathan Loar, Reference Librarian for South Asian collection, Asian Division.) Between the end of the 18th and the start of the 19th century, India was becoming a major academic subject throughout Europe. The discovery that many words in the ancient Indian language Sanskrit (e.g., dasha – ten, akshi – …
Posted in: Asian Division, South Asia