Chicago University Bibliographer's tribute to Justice K.T.Telang
Even as the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, that may be called the home of Justice K.T.Telang’s indological works struggles to keep pace with the digital revolution, battling funds crunch for digitization of enormous volumes it possesses, a project to digitize all the published works of the great scholar was announced yesterday. Speaking at 23 rd Justice K.T.Telang Memorial Lecture at the Asiatic Society on Thrusday, Dr.James Nye, Bibliographer for South Asia, Univery of Chicago Library said he and some of his colleagues would be working in coming weeks to digitize all the published works of Justice Telang and make them available online. Heartwarming to hear Dr.Nye mention the project as a tribute to Justice Telang, whom he compared to the likes of Hemachandra the 11 th century poet, polymath Jain scholar. A quick search shows Archive.org has already taken most of Justice Telang’s works digital. Seminal contribution of Justice Telang includes his translation of Bhagavad...