Nathaniel Brassey Halhed

British orientalist and philologist

Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (25 May 1751 – 18 February 1830) (Bengali: হালেদ, romanized: "Haled") was an English Orientalist and philologist.

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  • The Hindoos as well as the Chinese have ever laid claim to an Antiquity infinitely more remote than is authorized by the Belief of the rest of Mankind.
    • (Halhed 1776:xxxvii).
    • Trautmann, Thomas R. (2008). Aryans and British India. page 73
  • The World does not now contain Annals of more indisputable Antiquity than those delivered down by the ancient Bramins.
    • (Halhed 1776:xliii).
    • Trautmann, Thomas R. (2008). Aryans and British India. page 73
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