Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Boden Professor of Sanskrit/archive1


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The list was promoted by Giants2008 20:08, 25 July 2012.

Boden Professor of Sanskrit

 * Nominator(s): BencherliteTalk 21:31, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Back in the days of the ever-expanding British empire in the 19th century, an army officer called Boden left a small fortune to Oxford University to establish a Sanskrit professorship. But there was an overt purpose: not scholarship for its own sake, but scholarship with the purpose of bringing Christianity to India. Over time, this all got a bit embarrassing, and not without a major fight between scholarship and religious fervour at one election (see Boden Professor of Sanskrit election, 1860 now at WP:GAN (hint, hint) - spoiler alert, religious fervour wins...). Nowadays the professor teaches Sanskrit without worrying about whether his scholarship is going to convert the masses. This started life as an attempt to fill a couple of redlinks on previous lists, and as usual I ended up having to write a couple of articles about missing professors to make it complete. Apologies to TRM that it's another dark blue list; I'll do something for Cambridge one of these days. Enjoy! BencherliteTalk 21:31, 18 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Support dirty as it makes me feel . Great work!! The Rambling Man (talk) 19:47, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Support – No concerns. Great list, meets the criteria. ZiaKhan 19:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Comments –
 * Is "of" missing from "removed all mention Boden's original purpose from the statutes"?
 * In note 2, is "updating" supposed to be "updated"? Giants2008  ( Talk ) 00:47, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, fixed. Well spotted!
 * Either works in Br. Eng. BencherliteTalk 10:08, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Support - Overall looks great; I just have one minor comment that doesn't affect my support: I also made a couple of minor tweaks to the article; please check to see that I didn't inadvertently change any meaning. Nice work, Dana boomer (talk) 17:25, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Do we know which battalion/regiment of the Bombay Native Infantry Boden served in? It looks like there are quite a few to choose from.
 * The source says "His name was borne at various times on the rolls of the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 9th native infantry" but there doesn't seem to be a decent target for that. Your c/e was fine. Thanks for that and for your support. BencherliteTalk 06:01, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
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