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Linguistics Studies

Evaluating Literature

0This statement was made by Lord Macaulay in 1835.02br
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00"I have no knowledge of either Sanskrit or Arabic. But I have done what I could to form a correct estimate of their value...I am quite ready to take the oriental learning at the valuation of the orientalists themselves. I have never found one amongst them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia."02td
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00Do you think that statement was a fair assessment of Indian/Arabian literature, and, if so, do you think it would also stand as a fair assessment of modern/contemporary Indian/Arabian literature?0-
  

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02br 00I have no knowledge of either Sanskrit or Arabic, but I doubt that Lord Macaulay's is a fair assessment. 0-

— Mister Micawber

  • 02br 00I have no knowledge of either Sanskrit or Arabic, but I doubt that Lord Macaulay's is a fair assessment.
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0To be in a position to assess whether Lord M's statement was a fair assessment, we would first need to:02br
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001. become familiar with the whole native literature of India;02br
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003. establish the contents of the "single shelf of a good European library";
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