03 CONTENTS

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Part One

Incipit Vita Nova

i

CHAPTER I

Beginnings in Ruritania

13

2

Wandering of Young Max Muller

38

3

Formation of Mind and Character

69

4

Part Two

Early Years at Oxford

Blessed Is He Who has Found his Work

92

CHAPTER I

The Rig -Veda

123

2

Beata Georgina

147

3

Language

177

4

Oxford — Dark and Bright

202

Part Three

I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith ’

CHAPTER I

Polemics Political and Scholarly

239

2

Life, Love, and Death

265

3

India Men

287

4

India Movements

3 11

5

Vanaprastha

344

Conclusion

The Man and The thinker

37 1

Appendix I

Sources of the Biography

383

Appendix II

List of Max Muller’s Works

38 s

Appendix III

Important Events in Max Muller’s Life

387

Index

389