Word: indo-iranian
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...study of Sanskrit began at Harvard in 1872 when it was established as an elective for Latin studies. It was folded into the Department of Indo-Iranian Languages later in the decade and assumed its current name...
...Nazi, the Shah was using the word "Aryan" in its true ethnic sense, i.e., to refer to the Indo-Iranian peoples who 4,000 years ago occupied the Persian plateau and conquered most of India...
...Harvard University for the year 1900-01 to see how successful a great American institution of learning was at that time in embracing the whole of the known world within its field of vision. The result of such an examination is rather startling. Apart from a section entitled "Indo-Iranian Languages" concerned mainly with Indian classics, there was little to indicate that the world extended beyond the United States, Europe and the extreme west of Asia. There is almost no mention of Asia, Africa, South America, Australia or the islands of the Seven Seas. Their geography, history, literature, philosophy...
...chief Parsi of India is Jal Dastur C. Pavry, himself someday destined to be chief. He is now studying at Columbia University, having come primarily on account of a professor, one A. V. Williams Jackson, Professor of Indo-Iranian languages. Said Parvy: "I think Professor Jackson knows more about Zoroastrianism than anybody anywhere in the world...
With President Eliot was Professor Charles R. Lanman of the Indo-Iranian department who, in a short address, spoke of the cordial relations which have existed for many years past between Siam and the United States and especially Harvard University. The Prince was given an opportunity to see a part of the Harvard Oriental collection, including a beautiful memorial edition of the Buddhist Bible presented to the University by the father the Prince, the present King, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession to the throne...