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A portrait of Max Mueller, on a ₹1 stamp.
Max Mueller
India Post issued this stamp on 15 July 1974 for Friedrich Max Mueller, born at Dessau in Germany in 1823. He studied Sanskrit at Leipzig and Berlin, went to England in 1846 to work on manuscripts of the Rig Veda, and settled at Oxford, where his edition of the Rig Veda appeared in six volumes from 1849 to 1874. Through it and many books on Indian religion and literature, such as “India: What can it teach us?”, he became India’s best-known interpreter in the West, though he never visited the country. He died in 1900. This text draws on India Post’s folder for the issue.
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