Abstract
In the course of the Eighteenth Century the relations between Europe and Indiaevolved towards an increasing European interference in the internal affairs ofthe Indian potentates: this development brought about significant changes in theperception of the Indians by the Europeans. In particular, the end of the EighteenthCentury was a turning point in the interest of the cultured French elites for theIndian world: this period saw a movement from the universalism of Enlightenmentauthors and antiquaries towards the orientalism of specialist scholars. Fascinationand curiosity towards the Indian customs and religions were revisited by the works ofthe two French pioneers of modern Oriental studies, the antiquary and adventurerAbraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron (1731-1805) and the Jesuit Gaston-LaurentCoeurdoux (1691-1779)
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