Abstract
Sir William Jones resided in India from 1783 to 1794, as a judge of the Bengal Supreme Court. His work on India and the Orient changed the image of India in European eyes forever. However, the Western codes applied by Jones to the realities of India were not always successful. This is clear from his work on comparative mythology and Indian music. In addition, dazzled by the cultural treasures of Ancient India he tended to ignore eighteenth-century India. Even his interpretation and rewriting of Indian law was based on ancient Brahminical law. The result was a mummification of the country, which was to have profound consequences both internally, on India’s legal systems and social structure, and externally, in the way India was perceived by the West – as a country lost in time.
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