Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley

Lewis Sydney Steward O’Malley, also known as L. S. S. O'Malley (1874-1941), one of the most esteemed colonial, 'official' anthropologists in British India, served as a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) from 1898 to 1924. Quotes The wisdom found in Sanskrit works was greeted with something like reverential awe. Thus, the French philosopher Victor Cousin, speaking of the poetical and philosophical movements of the East, and above all, those of India, which were, he said, beginning to spread in Europe, declared that they contained so many truths, and such profound truths, that he was constrained to bend the knee before the genius of the East and to see in that cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy. in Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley. - In search of the cradle of civilization _ new light on ancient India-Quest Books (2011) External links Category:1874 births Category:1941 deaths Category:Anthropologists from England Category:University of Oxford alumni