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This essay is a history of British Oriental Studies, from 1902 to 2001. It traces the development of the field, and highlights the contributions of various scholars.
The evolution of Oriental Studies in Britain over the last century is traced in thirteen essays on key figures (twelve of them Fellows of the British Academy). They exemplify the outstanding contribution of British scholars to Oriental scholarship, within the general trend in the West to understand and interpret the civilizations of the East sympathetically.
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