So - although indirectly - some Bengali Babus present in Oxford, via their Sanskrit-Sanskrit dictionaries . 

Only they? 

Artur

2016-04-30 21:22 GMT+02:00 Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei@uchicago.edu>:
The conversation seems to have forgotten entirely the role of the great Skt.-Skt. dictionaries
of the 19th c., the Sabdakalpadruma and the Vacaspatyam (sorry that I have no diacriticals
at the moment).

Matthew

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago