AW: "GRETIL e-library" now open

[Rosane Rocher]

My pleasure. The Colebrookes formed one of those dynasties in East 
Indian service, and commonly get confused. The index to the first volume 
of proceedings of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta thoroughly mixes up 
the Sanskritist Henry Thomas Colebrooke with his cousin Robert Hyde 
Colebrooke, who was surveyor-general of Bengal (and the uncle and also 
father-in-law of William Macbean Colebrooke of Ceylon fame). Henry 
Thomas also sometimes gets attributed the title of his elder brother, 
Sir (James) Edward, and also the misdeeds that caused the latter's 
dismissal as Resident of Delhi. My husband and I hope to unravel this 
web in our forthcoming biography of Henry Thomas, which is nearing 
completion.

All best wishes,
Rosane Rocher

Gruenendahl, Reinhold wrote:
> Dear Professor Rocher,
> thank you very much for pointing out this mistake. I have corrected it in
> both the title list and the data sheet of the file.
>  
> With best wishes
> Reinhold Grünendahl
>  
>  
> ________________________________________________ 
>  
> Dr. Reinhold Gruenendahl
> Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek
> Fachreferat sued- und suedostasiatische Philologien
> (Dept. of Indology)
>  
> 37070 Goettingen, Germany
> Tel (+49) (0)5 51 / 39 52 83
>  
> gruenen at sub.uni-goettingen.de
>  
> FACH-INFORMATIONEN INDOLOGIE, GOETTINGEN:
> http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/fiindolo.htm
> In English:
> http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/fiindole.htm
>  
> GRETIL - Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages:
> http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm
>  
>  
>
> ________________________________
>
> Von: Indology im Auftrag von Rosane Rocher
> Gesendet: Di 29.04.2008 14:03
> An: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Betreff: Re: "GRETIL e-library" now open
>
>
>
> Many thanks for this great service to scholarship.
>
> May I suggest a correction to the catalog of files? The article on toddy
> in Ceylon is not by Henry Thomas Colebrooke, who was a civilian. The
> author was (later Sir) William Macbean George Colebrooke, who had a
> distinguished military and administrative career in Sri Lanka, and later
> in the Caribbean.
>
> All best wishes,
> Rosane Rocher
>
> Gruenendahl, Reinhold wrote:
>   
>>      
>> Respected members of the list,
>>
>> the first 20 items of the "GRETIL e-library" are now available from this
>> provisional site:
>>
>> www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gr_elib.htm
>>
>> The infrastructure (persistent URLs, cataloguing, classification, etc.) is
>> still under construction, but the e-books themselves are available without
>> restrictions.
>>
>> The focus of the "GRETIL e-library" will be on older standard works, along
>> with writings relevant to the history of indology and related fields
>> (Wissenschaftsgeschichte). This first batch of 20 titles is not intended as
>>     
> a
>   
>> preview of the thematic range, it merely tries to reflect the conceivable
>> spectrum of document types (monograph / multi-volume / article; Antiqua /
>> Fraktur / Devanagari / Burmese; plain text / diacritics / accents; text /
>> illustrations, etc.).
>>
>> All works in Latin script are available as Text-Under-Image PDFs, with a
>> searchable text behind an image of the original page. This allows you to
>>     
> copy
>   
>> text into other applications (or into the search interface of your
>> Acrobat/Reader etc.).
>>
>> The searchable background text has been generated with a specially trained
>> OCR software. The character range comprises all standard diacritics (with
>> modifications and additions - such as accents - where required). Please
>>     
> note
>   
>> that the background texts have not been proof-read. Thus, the result of
>>     
> your
>   
>> search may not include ALL references. This holds particularly for complex
>> texts (such as Macdonell's Vedic Grammar) and poor print quality.
>>
>> Works in non-Latin scripts are available as plain multiple-image PDFs.
>>     
> Apart
>   
>> from short articles, all items are fully indexed/bookmarked for better
>> orientation.
>>
>> Some of the titles offered here may feature on other sites, too. There,
>> however,  they usually come as plain multiple-image files, mostly without
>> index/bookmarks. Where Text-Under-Image files are being offered, the
>>     
> quality
>   
>> is usually poor. Moreover, access may be restricted, geographically or
>> otherwise - "Google Books" is one case in point, discussed on this list at
>>     
> an
>   
>> earlier occasion. Anyway, with the appearance of searchable texts - which
>>     
> you
>   
>> can bookmark, copy or comment, e.g. with Adobe Acrobat - I see little scope
>> for the piecemeal perusal of online image collections.
>>
>> Special thanks to Martin Straube and Dominik Wujastyk for sharing their
>> sizeable collections. I have included one specimen each, with more to
>>     
> follow.
>   
>> Best reagards
>> Reinhold Grünendahl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________________
>>
>> Dr. Reinhold Gruenendahl
>> Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek
>> Fachreferat sued- und suedostasiatische Philologien
>> (Dept. of Indology)
>>
>> 37070 Goettingen, Germany
>> Tel (+49) (0)5 51 / 39 52 83
>>
>> gruenen at sub.uni-goettingen.de
>>
>> FACH-INFORMATIONEN INDOLOGIE, GOETTINGEN:
>> http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/fiindolo.htm
>> In English:
>> http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/fiindole.htm
>>
>> GRETIL - Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages:
>> http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>     
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