I think SOAS has just got the last Hindi lecturer from Cambridge, Francesca Orsini.
The problem with sanskrit/hindi is really at the school level - children don't realise that these courses are even options, so they don't apply. Then there aren't enough students to justify teaching the course.
FWIW. Oxford seems to have a brilliant and thriving Sanskrit department, which will no doubt continue to embed itself as the centre of everything old and south asian.
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Date: 2006-10-17 11:52 am (UTC)I think SOAS has just got the last Hindi lecturer from Cambridge, Francesca Orsini.
The problem with sanskrit/hindi is really at the school level - children don't realise that these courses are even options, so they don't apply. Then there aren't enough students to justify teaching the course.
FWIW. Oxford seems to have a brilliant and thriving Sanskrit department, which will no doubt continue to embed itself as the centre of everything old and south asian.