This article presents and analyses two previously unknown sources on Raja Krishnachandra of Nadia (1710–83). While the raja has long been famed in Bengal as a patron of brahmans, scholarship on him has had to contend with a lack of evidence. The two new sources, reports of conversations between Krishnachandra and Europeans, furnish insights into his mind and milieu. They support recent arguments that he used brahmanical patronage to buttress his authority, and deception to deal with the ascendant East India Company. Their greatest contribution, however, is to reveal that the raja sought an active engagement with foreign intellectual traditions. They suggest that eighteenth-century Hindu learning, far from being inherently hidebound or insular, was amenable to outside influences.

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Raja Krishnachandra 和早期印度教-欧洲知识交流的新亮点

本文介绍并分析了关于 Nadia 的 Raja Krishnachandra (1710-83) 的两个先前未知的来源。虽然拉贾在孟加拉一直以婆罗门的赞助人而闻名，但对他的学术研究却不得不与缺乏证据作斗争。这两个新来源，即克里希纳钱德拉与欧洲人之间对话的报道，提供了对他的思想和环境的洞察。他们支持最近的论点，即他利用婆罗门的赞助来支持他的权威，并用欺骗手段来对付方兴未艾的东印度公司。然而，他们最大的贡献是揭示了 raja 寻求与外国知识传统的积极接触。他们认为，18 世纪的印度教学习，远非天生拘谨或孤立，而是容易受到外部影响。