Open Access18–19. századi magyar India-utazók emlékezete
Author(s) -
Nándor Zagyi
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
modern geográfia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2062-1655
DOI - 10.15170/mg.2022.17.02.05
Subject(s) - judgement , value (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , period (music) , indian subcontinent , history , space (punctuation) , point (geometry) , sociology , social science , aesthetics , political science , ancient history , law , art , mathematics , philosophy , archaeology , linguistics , statistics , geometry
The present study provides a comprehensive overview of the 18th–19th century Hungarian or Hungary-related India travellers. In this context, relying upon the author’s subjective value judgement, individuals who visited India and South Asia, respectively, at any point during the period indicated in the title are systematized according to the strength of their work’s and oeuvre’s connection to the Indian subcontinent, as well as their social backgrounds, occupations, motives and goals, and not least the value of their contribution to travel and scientific literature and their significance in the history of science. In the case of India travellers in the strict sense, i.e. whose oeuvre is closely intertwined with India, the author devotes a separate analysis to the everyday and scientific aspects of their memory, their positions in memory space, the appearance of their memory in physical form, and the reasons behind the differences perceptible in these issues.