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| CATEGORIES ABOUT MONIER MONIER-WILLIAMS | |
| 1819 births | |
| monier-williams, monier | |
| 1899 deaths | |
| british indologists | |
| alumni of university college, oxford | |
| knights commander of the order of the indian empire | |
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]] Sir Monier Monier-Williams ( 1819 – 1899 ) studied, documented and taught Asian languages in England , and compiled one of the most widely-used Sanskrit -English dictionaries. Monier-Williams was the son of Colonel Monier Williams, surveyor-general in the Bombay presidency, and was born at Bombay on 12 November 1819 . He was educated at University College, Oxford from 1837 and taught Asian languages at the East India Company College from 1844 until 1858 , when Company Rule In India ended after the Mutiny . Monier-Williams was the second occupant of the Boden Chair of Sanskrit at Oxford University , following Horace Hayman Wilson , who had started the University's collection of Sanskrit manuscripts upon taking the Chair in 1831 . Indian studies in England were dominated by the demands of Government and Christian Evangelism , in ways that might be considered unacceptable in an academic environment today. Indeed, Max Müller , the most obvious candidate for the chair, was passed over because his religious views were deemed too liberal. Monier-Williams declared from the outset that the conversion of India to the Christian religion should be one of the aims of Orientalist scholarship. When Monier-Williams founded the University's Indian Institute in 1883 , it provided both an academic focus and also a training ground for the Indian Civil Service. The Institute closed on India n independence in 1947 . Monier-Williams created a Sanskrit-English dictionary that is still in print. It is also now available on CD-ROM and as the basis of the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon. He was knighted in 1886 , and was made KCIE in 1889 , when he adopted his Christian name of Monier as an additional surname. He died at Cannes on 11 April 1899 . PUBLICATIONS
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