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FILE Name: Bro939__BrownWN_et_al_Indic_Studies_in_America_ACLSBulletin_28_337-578.pdf PURL: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl/?gr_elib-320 Type: Searchable PDF/A (text under image) Encoding: Unicode (ā ī ū ṛ ṝ ḷ ḹ ṅ ñ ṭ ḍ ṇ ś ṣ ḥ ṃ ...), index/bookmarks Date: 20.4.2015 BRIEF RECORD Author: Brown, W. Norman (et al.) Title: Indic Studies in America Publ. in: American Council of Learned Societies Bulletin, 28 (1939), pp. 337–578. FULL RECORD http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gr_elib.htm NOTICE This file may be copied on the condition that its entire contents, including this data sheet, remain intact. GRETIL e-library AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Number 28 BULLETIN May, 1939 CONTENTS INDIC STUDIES IN AMERICA Foreword iii India and Humanistic Studies in America, W. Norman Brown. 1 Facilities for Indic Studies in America: a Survey, Horace I. Poleman 27 A Basic Bibliography for Indic Studies, Elmer H. Cutts 109 A Selected List of Texts in the Languages of India and Greater India 170 A Basic Bibliography on the Dialects of India 189 A Basic Bibliography on Greater India 198 Indexes 204 Alphabetical List of Institutions 204 Index of Museum Resources 210 Author Index to Basic Bibliography for Indic Studies.... 219 Subject Index to Basic Bibliography for Indic Studies.... 231 Index to A Selected List of Texts 234 Index to A Basic Bibliography on Greater India 241 Copyright, Í9S8 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES [i] FOREWORD The case for the expansion of Indic Studies in America is pre• sented in the opening article of this Bulletin, "India and Human• istic Studies in America'' by W. Norman Brown. Since it was written, the Editor has been engaged, with the assistance of the American Association of Museums and the Library of Congress, upon a survey of tbe materials and facilities for study and research in the field of the Indic cultures as they exist in American institu• tions of learning. It is pleasant, and somewhat surprising, to report that there undoubtedly exists in American scholarship an increasing interest in this field of study, not only at the level of research but also at tbe level of a more generalized curiosity on the part of all students of the modern world. The survey itself was limited to about five hundred universities, colleges, museums, and libraries selected on the basis of studies already made in the compilation of A Union List of Printed Indic Texts and Translations by Murray B. Emeneau and A Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada by Horace I. Poleman. The two hundred eighteen institutions whose facilities are described below represent the chief centers of museum and library resources and instruction. In the summary of instruction there has been included not only courses in institutions which maintain chairs or departments of Indic studies but also those given as isolated features of the more usual departments. An attempt has been made to list all pertinent museum holdings no matter how slight they may be in any one place. Some library resources of lesser importance have been listed because of their geographical position, their specialization in one or more disciplines of Indic studies, or simply because any depository of several hundred books in this field may be expected to offer to individuals in its vicinity opportunities for study if not for research. Private collectors and dealers have not been included. Their manuscript holdings can be determined by consulting the Census of Indic Manuscripts above referred to. Whenever text and translation holdings are recorded in Emeneau's Union List, that fact is reported. The information is presented geographically; an alphabetical index of institutions and indexes of museum and [iiil iv Foreword library holdings and instruction combine to supply, it is hoped, a clear picture of the status and the distribution of resources for Indic studies in America. The bibliographies offered are intended to guide the interested individual or institution in developing or augmenting a funda• mental Indic collection, upon which more advanced and special• ized collections can be built. These are highly selected lists, obviously they can be much expanded. In particular, additional texts from Emeneau's Union List could be included. Two texts, however, are included in the Cutts Bibliography, Nos. 156 and 164. In connection with his bibliography Mr. Cutts states: "The list of topics to be seen in the table of contents was arrived at after an examination of bibliographies in other fields of the type contem• plated. It is inevitable that certain alterations be made in any such topical listing to suit the field of study treated. Hence, for Indian uses, the greater number of headings under literature was necessary than would be the case in Chinese or European studies because of the diverse character of Indian literature arising pri• marily from religious differences. Then too, in the interest of space, it became wholly necessary to omit certain branches of Indian literature which appeared to be too little explored as yet to furnish the basis for a proper selection. Where works normally falling into such omitted categories were considered sufficiently outstanding as to be indispensable to any Indic bibliography, they were entered in the miscellaneous section. "The topics dealing with history and art are arranged in much the same manner as literature though it was not necessary in these cases to omit whole fields, except that of biography which also would not permit proper selection. "These three fields, comprising a total of sixteen of the twenty- seven topics, have been subdivided owing to their scope and special character. History and literature have been brought in chronologically as far as that is possible. Each group begins with a list of general works, then followed by the more specialized topics. Art duplicates this plan in respect to the general list, but from then on the division is topical. [iv] Foreword v "Of the remaining eleven topics, I and XXVI are reference, XXIII is miscellaneous, XVII is a list of periodicals, while the remainder, seven in all, cover the departments of Indian life and civilization not included in history, literature, or art. “It became immediately clear that no one method of arrange• ment was possible, but that each topic must have separate treat• ment. Hence, subject to certain exceptions, the order in topics I, III, VII, XI, and XIII–XVII is that of importance. Topics IV, V, XIX, XX, XXI, and XXIV have a subtopical arrangement as will be seen in tbeir titles. Topics VIII, IX, X, XII, XVIII, XXII, XXV, XXVI bave a chronological arrangement while II and XXIII have no order at all since II is very short and XXIII is miscellaneous. Topic, VI, Early Foreign Contacts, deals first with Western Asian and European and then with Far Eastern contacts. Finally topic XXVII, the periodicals, is arranged in order of first publication. “Besides these arrangements there will be found, where applica• ble, the development from the general to the particular. "It is obvious that the selection of works cited should not be left to the discernment of a single student of the field. Accordingly, after a tentative selection was made it was submitted to as much criticism as was available. Professor Walter E. Clark of Harvard University kindly consented to make suggestions, and his helpful advice in respect both to omissions and additions has given to this all important department of this study whatever merit it may possess. Others were unfortunately unable to find time for a thorough criticism though several suggestions of individual works were received and made use of. "The attempt was made throughout to select only those works which were objectively written and to omit such books as might be open to tbe charge of bias of any sort. It was particularly im• portant to avoid such works as gave evidence of 'special pleading' whether in respect to cosmology, antiquity, purity, or politics in a subjective way. In the field of art attention was paid as much to the inclusion of fine reproductions as to the accompanying content. [v] vi Foreword "It has seemed advisable to divide the index into two parts to provide a clearer means of reference for those who wish to find a book under author, translator, or, in the case of a translation, under title. Accordingly Index A supplies an alphabetical list of Western Authors and Translators together with the shortened titles of their works. Index B is an alphabetical list of subjects and Indian names of translations cited. In both indexes the citation is to topic, number, and page.'' The editor wishes to point out that considerable liberties have been taken in the editing of Mr. Cutts’s list. In the case of the more rare works depositories have been included. The index to the bibliography of texts includes Indic titles and authors as well as Western authors and titles. The bibliography for Indian dialects is not indexed. It is appropriately subdivided with alphabetical listing by author or by title, when the author's identity is lacking. The bibliography for Greater India is listed alphabetically in a similar way with an index by countries. The editor wishes to thank Lawrence V. Coleman, Director of the American Association of Museums, for his valuable suggestions in connection with the survey of museums. Mr. Mortimer Graves, Administrative Secretary of the American Council of Learned Societies, deserves much credit for advice as to procedure and arrangement. Professor W. Norman Brown of the University of Pennsylvania has increased the value of the bibliographies by much constructive criticism. Credit is especially due Miss Jenny E‚ Falk, graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, for her careful editing and typing of the bibliographies.