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Henry Thomas Colebrooke

A portrait of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, English Sanskrit scholar, on the website of the Science Photo Library. A polymath interested in languages, religions, social customs, law, mathematics and science, he was instrumental in establishing the Royal Asiatic Society in 1823.

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View of old court-house and writer's building in Calcutta

A tinted etching of the old court house and clerks' offices of the East India Company in Calcutta. Founded in 1600 to trade the valuable spices and materials of Asia, the Company gradually grew into the dominant military power in the subcontinent and effectively ruled India for a century. One of its best-known employees was Henry Thomas Colebrooke, who started off as a writer or clerk. Colebrooke's Digest of Hindu Law aided his later work as a judge and legal scholar, spent partly in the court house pictured, held in the British Library's collections. Colebrooke became a leading Indologist over 30 years spent working in India.

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Henry Colebrooke biography

The life and career of Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765—1837), a British administrator in India, is summed up in volume 11 of the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885—1900. An accomplished scholar of Sanskrit and of Hindu literature, Colebrooke was one of the founders of the Royal Asiatic Society. His intellectual interests were extremely wide, covering mathematics, science, law, languages and religion.

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