Dear Alf

My 2003 book is available for download on Cross-Asia (with many others) http://crossasia-books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/xasia/catalog/series/nhb

The book covers missionary readings of Hinduism in the period ending with the establishment of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the appearance of other works by EIC scholar-administrators. On Ward and others in his period Geoff Oddie's book, Imagined Hinduism (Sage 2006) is good.
Sharada Sugirtharajah has a chapter on Ward in the similarly titled Imagining Hinduism (Routledge 2003) which was also published as an article (Sugirtharajah, Sharada. “Virtuous Christians, Vicious Hindus: A Postcolonial Look at William Ward and his Hinduism.” Studies in World Christianity 5, no. 2 (1999): 196–212). Sugirtharajah uses only Ward's published sources - Oddie by contrast has used Ward's diaries which, he says, shows the extent to which he relied on the pundits the mission employed (thirty in 1819). He also suggests that, for all its size (1400 pages), Ward's book uses only a fraction of the material on Hinduism in his diaries, so there's a whole project waiting there for someone.

My article (not book!) on the historiography of Jesuits is due to appear any day (as an open access article) on Jesuit Historiography online https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/jesuit-historiography-online
I'll send you a proof copy separately (I think Indology strips attachments).

Another article of mine is due to appear in the last issue of the JAOS for this year. I mention this because it includes a brief discussion of a very interesting 1719 Jesuit letter which offers what I think must be the most detailed account of a Vedic sacrifice by a European author to that point. (The article is a study of European responses to the Vedas, for which I asked for help on this list a couple of years ago - so it may be of interest to some others on the list too). There's an uncorrected proof on my academia page (https://otago.academia.edu/WillSweetman)

The best work on early European account of the Jains is by Leslie Orr. One article has appeared (“Orientalists, Missionaries, and Jains: the South Indian Story.” In The Madras School of Orientalism: Producing Knowledge in Colonial South India, edited by Thomas R. Trautmann, 265–287. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009) another ("European Imaginings of Jainism in Colonial Madras: Tales of the Coromandel Coast") is forthcoming (I think).

A conference paper by Robert Del Bontà, “From Herodotus Onwards: Descriptions of Unidentified Jainas” has been announced as appearing in a volume entitled Jaina Law and Society edited by Peter Flügel, but this volume seems to be indefinitely delayed (maybe Peter can comment?)


Best wishes

Will


Alfred Hiltebeitel via INDOLOGY wrote on 23/10/19 10:10 AM:
Dear Colleagues,

I am writing about  Catholic and Protestant responses to Hindu sacrifice in the colonial period.

Could anyone supply me withe Will Sweetman’s book, Reading Jesuits Reading Hinduism, and his book on Hinduism in the colonial period?

I am also trying to recall a book I think by someone with the surname Ward which I recall as a pertinent diatribe agains Hindu sacrifices. Does anyone know it?

For comparative purpose I am also interested to know of studies of Jain and Buddhist funerary practices in the colonial period.

Please excuse the fishing trip sound of these requests. Anything about colonial period responses to Hindu polytheism generally would be most appreciated.

Best regards,
Alf
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On Sep 12, 2019, at 4:50 PM, Alfred Hiltebeitel <beitel@email.gwu.edu> wrote:


Dear colleagues,

There are two works I need. Is it possible that one or more of you could supply me with either of them?

Daniel H. H. Ingalls, “Words for Beauty in Classical Sanskrit Poetry,” in Studies in Honor of W. Norman Brown, 87-107, New Haven: American Oriental Society.

And,

Eveline Meyer, “the Greatness of Ankalaparamecuvari, told through the story of how Paramacivan plucked the head of Piramma in the play called the destruction of Turuvacar,” in: Lothar Lutze, Ed. Drama in Contemporary South Asia: Variations and Settings, South Asian Digest of Regional Writing, vol. 10 (1981), Heidelberg (sorry but my. Source does not list the pages)

Many thanks,

Alf Hiltebeitel

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